TRAFFIC ALERT

Recovery-Funded I-95 Pave and Rehab Project Set to Start Monday Night

Wilmington -- The Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announces that night work will begin at 9 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, on I-95 southbound. The public can expect about two months of pavement and rehabilitative work, limited to the schedule of 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. and typically from Sunday through Thursday, along I-95 southbound from the Christina River to DelDOT's salt shed. However, work will not take place Sunday night or Monday night of Labor Day weekend. It will resume the night of Tuesday, Sept. 8.

The ramp from I-295 southbound to I-95 southbound will be intermittently closed throughout the project. The southbound detour from I-295 is Route 13/DuPont Highway southbound to Route 141/Basin Road northbound to I-95 southbound.

The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) project will be completed by Greggo & Ferrara, Inc., a New Castle-based construction firm, for the amount of $2,272,626.80. The project will mill and overlay about 3.5 miles of interstate and parts of the off-ramps along this section of roadway.

DelDOT's $140.9 million ARRA projects range from big-ticket items, such as the additional highway-speed E-ZPass lanes at the I-95 Toll Plaza and more than $25 million worth of paving and rehabilitation work statewide, to safety projects such as traffic signal projects, guardrail replacement and bridge maintenance. Funding is being targeted not just for traditional road projects, but also for transit projects such as the first phase of a new Dover Transit Center, upgraded park-and-ride facilities and new rail cars and buses. The project list also includes money for raising South Market Street in Wilmington out of the flood plain and funding to refurbish the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk, both designed to enhance economic opportunities in those areas.