Tim Bracken, wtop.com
WASHINGTON — Weather permitting, construction crews will block all lanes of the Southeast-Southwest Freeway between Pennsylvania Avenue and the 11th Street Bridge Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. The lane closures will allow crews to install bridge girders over the SE-SW Freeway for a new freeway bridge.
The following will take place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.:
- Both directions of the SE-SW Freeway will be closed between the 11th Street Bridge and Pennsylvania Avenue
- The 9th Street SE entrance ramp to the eastbound Freeway will also be closed
- Anyone traveling eastbound on the freeway will be detoured to southbound South Capitol Street to the Douglass Bridge to Suitland Parkway to the Interstate 295 northbound on-ramp and then to Pennsylvania Avenue
- Anyone traveling westbound on Pennsylvania Avenue SE will be detoured to southbound I-295 and then onto South Capitol Street to access the westbound Freeway, I-395, and destinations located via M Street SE