I-24 Work on Track, Despite Rainy Weekend

Interstate bridge repairs east of downtown Nashville are continuing on schedule, despite a couple inches of rain over the weekend. The road work near LP field is on a tight timeframe to finish in August, before Titans football season gets underway . This past weekend was one of the most ambitious on the schedule.
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Concrete doesn’t mix well with heavy rainfall, which often forces delays to road projects. But the Transportation Department’s B.J. Doughty points out much of the I-24 bridge work isn’t so much pouring as just fitting in pre-made blocks. Doughty says that just left a few seams to fill in, about the same time the rain broke for a few hours.

“This was a lot of rain that we got – two inches is a significant amount, so the fact that they were able to soldier on and get all of that work done despite the weather is a really good sign.”

The nearly $9 million project is on a narrow timeline, with only two weekends to make up for any lost work.

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I-24 east of downtown will be closed again this weekend, complicating traffic as tens of thousands of fans head to a car show at LP field. There will also be a 5K run near Broadway, and a couple of bike rides passing through downtown for the Tour de Nash.