Construction on Interstate 5 could cause long backups Saturday morning near the state Route 16 interchange.
Crews will be working through tonight to replace concrete roadway panels on the freeway and won’t finish until 10 a.m. Saturday.
They’ll reduce southbound I-5 to one lane, starting around City Center, and will reroute traffic off the interstate onto the 38th Street collector/distributor lane.
That’s an hour later than they have been working, and state traffic engineers say that could cause delays.
“Our traffic modeling shows that unless people divert to other routes or delay their I-5 travel until after 10 a.m., we could see several miles of backups on southbound I-5,” state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Claudia Bingham Baker said.
rob.carson@ thenewstribune.com
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