Road Work Alert: I-75 Modernization Project In Oakland County To Begin Next Month

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP (WWJ) - Expect more barrels and barricades along I-75, beginning next month, where Bloomfield Township meets Auburn Hills in northern Oakland County.

As part of a two-year, $90.8 million investment to reconstruct both directions of I-75 — between Coolidge Highway and South Boulevard  — the Michigan Department of Transportation will be reducing the freeway to two lanes to modernize and re-align Square Lake Road interchange.

When work is complete, drivers entering northbound I-75 will be able to do so from the right lane instead of the present day left lane so traffic can merge more safely.

With its current configuration it's like a collision course for drivers like Dan Pisarmo.

"These people coming in like this, wanting to go to (M)59 and then these guys coming up...that's the big issue," he told WWJ's Ron Dewey.

Starting in mid-August, MDOT says two lanes will be open in each direction of I-75 between Coolidge and Squirrel Road in order to safely allow crews to construct temporary crossovers. In September, two-way traffic will share the southbound lanes to allow for the reconstruction of northbound I-75, along with bridge replacement at Adams, Square Lake and Squirrel roads. This pattern is expected to remain in place until mid-December, when all lanes of I-75 will open and traffic will be in its proper alignment.

Modernization of the Square Lake Road interchange also involves replacing the left lane ramps at northbound I-75, continuing throughout the winter months, but won't impact traffic.

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