Essentially, this bridge has reached its life expectancy.
We don't have the major $115-million investment we made in I-96 last year or the $120 million we invested over two years on I-94. This year it's spread out more, but it's still attending to areas with the greatest need for pavement repair and bridge rehabilitation.
We have plans for other weekends to set bridge beams. We anticipate following the same type of format with the overnight closures.
Four bridges might not seem like a lot, but two of them are complete replacements.
This was kept in mind while planning this project, to stage getting the interchange done with Beck and the Haggerty bridge done before the start of the project on Sheldon. We want the entire M-14 project to be completed by Nov. 1, when the Sheldon railroad project could begin.
They're pretty extensive repairs. I fully anticipate we should have those bridges reopened to traffic some time in October.