Watch out for nighttime roadwork closures on I-70 in Glenwood Canyon

Be connected the lookout for nighttime roadwork successful the Glenwood Canyon country of Interstate 70 this week arsenic the Colorado Department of Transportation repairs portion of the roadway that was damaged by mudslides implicit the summer.

CDOT volition adjacent the eastbound lanes of I-70 from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Wednesday and Friday astatine exit 116 (Glenwood Springs). Westbound lanes volition stay open, but motorists should beryllium alert of a imperishable one-lane, half-mile closure astatine mile constituent 123.5 (Blue Gulch). Mudslides and material-related slides connected July 29 and 31 caused sizeable harm astatine that information of the interstate.

Crews volition rebuild the eastbound retaining partition that supports the eastbound lanes, CDOT wrote successful a quality merchandise Tuesday. The bureau has acceptable a Thanksgiving deadline for each lanes to beryllium open.

Eastbound motorists are advised to instrumentality a detour astatine northbound Colorado 13 successful Rifle to Craig, eastbound connected U.S. 40 to Steamboat Springs implicit Rabbit Ears Pass to Kremmling, past southbound Colorado 9 to Silverthorne.