Date: November 13, 2024
District: 7 – Los Angeles & Ventura counties
Contact: Marc Bischoff
E-mail: marc.bischoff@dot.ca.gov
Southbound I-605 Extended Weekend Lane Closures Scheduled November 15 to November 18
14 More Extended Weekend Lane Closures Planned
Los Angeles County: Caltrans (District 7) will be conducting a fourth 55-hour extended weekend lane closure operation on southbound Interstate 605 (I-605) between the I-5 in Downey and Firestone Boulevard in Norwalk for paving the weekend of Friday night, November 15 to Monday morning, November 18. There will be full southbound freeway closures Friday night and Sunday night. During the remainder of the weekend there will only be lane reductions. The closures are subject to change and are scheduled as follows:
On southbound I-605 from I-5 to Firestone Boulevard:
· All southbound lanes will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday, November 15 to 4:01 a.m. Saturday morning, November 16 to place k-rail and temporary striping.
· Two southbound lanes will be open to traffic from 4:01 a.m. Saturday, November 16 to 11 p.m. Sunday, November 17.
· All southbound lanes will be closed again from 11 p.m. Sunday, November 17 to 5:01 a.m. Monday, November 18 to remove k-rail and restripe the freeway.
· All southbound lanes will reopen to the public by 5:01 a.m. on Monday, November 18.
· The northbound & southbound I-5 connectors to southbound I-605 will be closed starting as early as 8 p.m. Friday, November 15 to 5:01 a.m. Monday, November 18.
· The Florence Avenue and Telegraph Road on-ramps to southbound I-605 will be closed starting as early as 8 p.m. Friday, November 15 to 6:01 a.m. Monday, November 18.
Traffic will be detoured via local arterial routes during the hours of the full freeway closure. Please refer to attached detour map / flyer. This section of I-605 carries more than a quarter of a million vehicles per day on average. Caltrans urges motorists to
avoid the area during construction and use alternate freeways where possible, including southbound I-110, I-710 and State Route 57.
Please drive through the construction zone with extreme caution and obey speed limits as we improve your freeway.
Fourteen more extended weekend closures are scheduled in conjunction with this segment of the Super 605 freeway corridor improvement project, sometimes over consecutive weekends and extending into 2025.
Dates for those closures are not available, yet. Regularly scheduled overnight lane closures for two other segments will be distributed in separate news releases.
This work is part of the Super 605 freeway corridor projects to rehabilitate I-605 from Long Beach to the San Gabriel Valley. A total of $260 million in construction costs is funded with $238 million from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), and more than $20.5 million from Senate Bill (SB) 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.
The contractors are CA Rasmussen Inc., Vanguard Construction Inc., Peterson Chase General Engineering Construction, Inc., and Meyers & Sons Construction. Caltrans reminds drivers to “Be Work Zone Alert” and to “Slow for the Cone Zone.” Real-time closures at Caltrans QuickMap.
For more information about transportation and other infrastructure projects funded with state and federal investments, visit RebuildingCA.ca.gov and Build.gov.ca.
Caltrans reminds motorists to be “Work Zone Alert” and “Slow for the Cone Zone.”
