The Brief<\/p>\n
MDOT says on WB I-696, ramps will be closed from I-75 to M-10 beginning Friday night.<\/p>\n
That traffic switch will limit the entrance and exit ramps available for westbound traffic.<\/p>\n
OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) – MDOT has more highway construction that\u2019s sure to give many drivers headaches, including the workers who have to do the work.<\/p>\n
This time, ramps on I-696 Westbound are closing from I-75 to M-10 starting Friday.<\/p>\n
Big picture view<\/p>\n
MDOT says on WB I-696, ramps will be closed from I-75 to M-10 beginning Friday night, all for a major traffic shift in Oakland County.<\/p>\n
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) says as the newly rebuilt eastbound I-696 lanes along that stretch get closer to completion, crews are planning to switch westbound I-696 traffic from I-75 to M-10 over to the eastbound side in order to rebuild the westbound lanes.<\/p>\n
That traffic switch will limit the entrance and exit ramps available for westbound traffic.<\/p>\n
Some of the closed entrance ramps include:<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
As many can imagine, drivers are not thrilled.<\/p>\n
“I want to write to somebody in charge because it seems like you find, and I was talking to someone at work about this and they agreed – it seems like there\u2019s barrels everywhere but you never see anyone working. It\u2019s like you have too many people putting out barrels and not enough people working,” said driver Jeff Ronning.<\/p>\n
“Seems like all cities want to do construction at the same time everywhere! Just really inconvenience,” said driver Jay Allison.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
MDOT says this work is weather dependent, and if delayed, would take the following weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief MDOT says on WB I-696, ramps will be closed from I-75 to M-10 beginning Friday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[34068,21846,34069,143,145,144,34067],"class_list":["post-54413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-highway-construction","tag-mdot","tag-michigan-department-of-transportation","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-westbound-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}