Various Road Construction Projects and Detours Begin Tuesday

(September 4, 2023 9:31 AM ET)  Various construction projects by the Jackson County Department of Transportation, Michigan Department of Transportation, and the City of Jackson are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 5.

Jackson County Department of Transportation

The Jackson County Department of Transportation will be closing Bondsteel Drive off Springport Road in Blackman Township, for road construction beginning on September 5, 2023 (weather permitting). 

The road will be accessible to emergency vehicles, mail delivery, local residents and businesses; the road is expected to be open to through traffic by November 15, 2023. No detour will be posted and motorists should seek an alternate route. 

 The Jackson County Department of Transportation will be closing North Dettman Road (between Blake Road and Gregory Road) in Leoni Township, for chip sealing September 5, 2023 (weather permitting). 

The road is expected to be opened for through traffic by the end of the day September 5, 2023. Detours will not be posted and motorists should seek an alternate route. 

Michigan Department of Transportation

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will close the M-99 bridge over I-94 for maintenance in Jackson County.

The start date is Tuesday, September 5 at 8 AM and i scheduled to be completed on Thursday, September 21.  This work will require closing the M-99 bridge over I-94.  Traffic will be detoured via J Drive, 28 Mile Road, and Michigan Avenue.

Westbound I-94 will have a single-lane closure between US-127 and M-106 (Cooper Street) for joint sealing work.  The closure is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5.

Eastbound I-94 will have a single-lane closure between Elm Road and US-127 for resurfacing work.  The closure is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6 and 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7.

City of Jackson

The City of Jackson will begin a project to do pavement patching on Daniel Road and on Brown Street between Michigan and Daniel on Tuesday.

The work will mill out and patch those sections of the southbound travel lane on Daniel and Brown that are cracked, broken and potholed. The work will likely take about a week to complete.

Early this week, temporary signs, barricades and cones will be set up to control traffic. The mill is scheduled to arrive in the middle of next week to remove the pavement in those sections to be patched. The milling will be done in a single day. Base and middle layers of new hot mix asphalt will then be paved in a day. It will then take a couple of days for the electrician to replace the vehicle detection loops in the pavement for the signal at Brown and Michigan. After the loops are in, the top layer of asphalt will be paved and the street will be opened to traffic.

During the construction period, Brown and Daniel will remain open for northbound traffic only. The southbound lane will be closed to traffic. Temporary signing, barricades and cones will be erected to direct southbound traffic long a Wisner to Michigan to Brown detour route and vice versa.