The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) provides weekly updates on road construction projects. Here is what you can expect in Pierce, Dunn and St. Croix counties. Northwest Region …
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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) provides weekly updates on road construction projects. Here is what you can expect in Pierce, Dunn and St. Croix counties.
Northwest Region Pavement
Marking Highway: Various Location: Ashland, Buffalo, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Rusk, St. Croix, Taylor, Trempealeau and Washburn counties
Schedule: May 17 to October Cost: $1.04 million Description: Completing longline marking of centerlines and edge lines and special marking of words, arrows, stop bars, diagonals, curbs and crosswalks.
Traffic impacts: Moving lane restrictions are anticipated in:
•St. Croix County on WIS 65 at the I-94 interchange.
Dunn and St. Croix counties Highway: I-94 Location: Between Hudson and Menomonie near Knapp
Schedule: March 25, 2019 to August 2021
Cost: $57.5 million Description: Removing and replacing concrete pavement and six structures, grading, marking pavement and installing beam guard, cable barrier, right-of-way fencing and signing.
Traffic impacts:_There will be sporadic lane and shoulder closures on east- and westbound I-94 from County Road Q to 250th Street during non-peak travel hours.
Pierce County
Highway: US 10 Location: County A to the east county line
Schedule: July 26 to November Cost: $8.9 million Description: Removing asphalt, overlaying the road with new asphalt, adding centerline rumble strips, replacing culverts and upgrading guardrail.
Traffic impacts:
•Motorists can expect single-lane daytime closures controlled by flagging operations.
•The passing lane from Pine Avenue to the east county line is closed.
Highway: WIS 29/35 Location: Between US 10 in Prescott and Cemetery Road in the city of River Falls
Schedule: May 10 to October Cost: $12.11 million Description: Removing and replacing the existing pavement, replacing culverts and guardrail, rehabilitating the bridge over Greenwood Valley Creek, installing centerline and edge line rumble strips between the south junction of County QQ and Cemetery Road and modifying intersections at County E, County FF and Cemetery Road.
Traffic impacts:
•WIS 29/35 is closed to through traffic from County F to Cemetery Road.
•The segment of WIS 29/35 from US 10 to County F is anticipated to close to traffic on Monday, Aug. 9.
•Detour: US 10 and WIS 65.
Highway: County Road O Location: Trimbelle River Bridge southwest of Ellsworth
Schedule: July 22 to September Cost: $535,713 Description: Replacing the bridge deck.
Traffic impacts: Bridge is closed; traffic is being detoured on County Road OO
St. Croix County
Highway: I-94 Location: Carr Creek south of Woodville and County Road NN between County Road B and WIS 128 Schedule: July 19 to November 2023
Cost: $21.6 million Description: Building temporary roadway and bridges to maintain four lanes of traffic on I-94; removing and replacing the existing east- and westbound I-94 bridges over Carr Creek and County Road NN with structures wide enough to allow for an additional lane of traffic on I-94 when warranted;_realigning and reconstructing the eastbound exit ramp and westbound entrance ramp at the I-94-County Road B interchange; extending the north end of the existing box culvert at County NN; and completing grading operations, approach work, sign installation and pavement marking.
Traffic impacts: Motorists will encounter the following closures:
•I-94 outside shoulder at Carr Creek: Monday to Friday.
•Eastbound I-94 outside lanes:
•6 p.m. Monday to 9 a.m. Tuesday.
•6 p.m. Tuesday to 9 a.m. Wednesday.
•6 p.m. Wednesday to 9 a.m. Thursday.
•7 p.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday.
•8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday.
•Westbound I-94 inside lanes:
•6 p.m. Monday to 2 p.m. Tuesday.
•6 p.m. Tuesday to noon Wednesday.
•6 p.m. Wednesday to 11 a.m. Thursday.
•6 p.m. Thursday to 10 a.m. Friday.
•8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday.
Highway: US 12 Location: County Road U east of Hudson to the west leg of WIS 65 near Roberts
Schedule: July 6 to September Cost: $4.19 million Description: Milling and replacing asphalt pavement, reconstructing the concrete pavement west of Clints Trail, repairing or replacing culvert pipes, widening asphalt shoulders and repairing aggregate shoulders and upgrading curb and gutter, guardrail, signage, pavement marking and rumble strips.
Traffic impacts:
•US 12 will be closed from July 12 to Aug. 31.
•Detour: I-94 and County Road U to the west and WIS 65 to the east.
•In the work zone, there is flagging to provide access to residences and businesses east of La Barge Road.
Highway: WIS 35 Location: Between Front Street in Hudson and North End Road in North Hudson
Schedule: April 26 to late November
Cost: $11.17 million Description: Repairing concrete, resurfacing or reconstructing WIS 35, rehabilitating the Lake Mallalieu Bridge, replacing storm sewer systems, completing sanitary sewer and water main work, making improvements at the WIS 35 intersection at Coulee Road/Buckeye Street and adding a two-way left-turn lane between Sommers Street North and North End Road.
Traffic impacts: This project is using_a combination of staging, lane closures controlled by flaggers and a detour – I-94, Minnesota Trunk Highways 95 and 36 and WIS 64 – to move WIS 35 traffic during construction.
•WIS 35 between Front Street and Coulee Road/Buckeye Street in Hudson is reduced to one lane in each direction.
•On-street parking on northbound WIS 35 between Coulee Road/Buckeye Street and Vine Street in Hudson is closed.
•WIS 35 between Vine and Division streets in Hudson is closed to all through traffic.
•WIS 35 from just south of Monroe Street North to Sommers Street North in North Hudson is closed to all through traffic.
Submitted by WisDOT