Drivers driving through Haverhill’s Ward Hill Business Park Friday night and most nights next week will be detoured as the Interstate 495 southbound exit closes for work on a replacement Ward Hill Connector bridge.
Massachusetts Department of Transportation officials said Thursday there will be overnight closings of the I-495 southbound Exit 106 off-ramp to the Ward Hill Connector, formally known as Industrial Avenue, in Haverhill. The off-ramp will be closed Friday, July 31, and from Tuesday, Aug. 4, to Friday, Aug. 7, from 9 p.m. to 5a.m. the following morning.
This work is part of an ongoing $337 million multi-bridge replacement project for I-495 over Merrimack River, I-495 over Route 110/113, and Industrial Avenue over I-495 in Haverhill.
Approximately 20-minute mobile roadblocks on I-495 northbound and southbound are scheduled on Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 1-4 a.m. Route 110/113, Merrimack Street, in Methuen will be temporarily closed Thursday, Aug. 13, and Friday, Aug. 14, from 9 p.m. to early morning hours the following day.
There will be overnight temporary mobile roadblocks on I-495 northbound and southbound to allow National Grid to raise overhead power lines near mile marker 105, between exits 105 and 106. Temporary roadblocks will be used in the early morning hours Tuesday, Aug. 4, between 1 and 4 a.m. Each temporary roadblock will have a maximum duration of 20 minutes in order to reduce traffic impacts.
There will be overnight closings of Route 110/113, Merrimack Street, Methuen for structural steel erection of the new I-495 Stage 1 bridge. The closings will extend from the Route 110/113 intersection in Methuen to the I-495 exit 107 on-ramp for I-495 southbound in Haverhill. Closings occur Thursday, Aug. 13, and Friday, Aug. 14, from 9 p.m. to early morning hours the following day.