City Times Staff

PORTAGE COUNTY — With summer comes baseball, pool parties, morning hikes — and road construction. Below is a listing of updates to ongoing projects in Portage County, courtesy of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

Highway: Business 51 (Post Road) (*updated*)
Location: Hickory Street to Minnesota Avenue
Schedule: July 11 to early November 2019
Cost: $15.3 million

Description: Work includes reconstructing the roadway, adding raised medians, widening the bridge over McDill Pond, and making intersection modifications. 

Traffic Impacts: Business 51 will remain open to at least one lane in each direction. Motorists can expect to encounter flagging operations, lane closures, and traffic shifts. Pedestrians may encounter sidewalk closures and detours.

Highway: I-39 and WIS 54
Locations: I-39 (WIS 54 to North 2^nd Street)
Schedule: April 23 to August 2, 2018
Cost: $7.4 million
Description: Crews will resurface the highways. Improvements include applying a high-friction surface to the I-39 bridges over the Plover River, and to northbound I-39 between Business 51 and the North 2^nd Street overpass.

Traffic impacts:

• Motorists on WIS 54, between Hoover Avenue and Harding Avenue, can expect single lane closures and flagging operations.
• Motorists on I-39 can expect to encounter single lane closures and speed reductions. Some nighttime ramp closures are possible between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.