COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – In addition to the work on Business Loop 69, another Michigan Department of Transportation project is scheduled start on the east side of Coldwater the day after Labor Day.
Crews will be performing repairs to the I-69 bridge over U.S. 12 which are designed to improve the bridge’s durability.
Repairs to the steel will include heat straightening as well as cleaning and coating the structural steel.
The $132,000 project is scheduled to be done by October fifth.
Drivers will have to be more patient than usual on the busy east side of Coldwater during the project. Traffic on U.S. 12 will be reduced to one lane in each direction and the southbound side of I-69 will also be down to one lane.
Meanwhile, a $1.6 million project which starts September 18, 2018 will modernize traffic signals and ADA sidewalk ramps at ten locations. It will include U.S. 12 and the I-69 Business Loop in Branch County.
The contractor will regulate traffic while the signals are modernized. The project won’t wrap up until August 2019.
MDOT also says the $2.3 million U.S. 12 paving project between Coldwater and Bronson is officially over.
