Stretch of U.S. 36 to close next week

U.S. 36 will close for a quarter of a mile on each side of the McCaslin Boulevard bridge for girder installation 10 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday.

Traffic will be detoured at the off-ramps and routed back onto eastbound and westbound U.S. 36 via the McCaslin on-ramps.

“The McCaslin bridge is a key piece of the work on the second phase of the U.S. 36 project,” said CDOT Project Director Mark Gosselin. “We are setting six, 88,000-pound girders in order to widen the existing McCaslin Boulevard bridge to accommodate the diverging diamond interchange.”

A Diverging Diamond Interchange crosses traffic to the…