02/23/2024
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Traffic Alert
Delaware Department of Transportation February 16, 2024
Office of Community Relations
Robin Bryson, Community Relations Coordinator
(302) 576-6142; [email protected]
I-95 / SR 896 INTERCHANGE – UPCOMING LANE AND RAMP CLOSURES
The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announces to motorists that the Contractor will require
OVERNIGHT CLOSURE OF SOUTHBOUND I-95 at the SR 896 Interchange to install steel bridge girders. To
avoid delays on the detour routes through Newark, southbound I-95 motorists are encouraged to use SR 1 to US 40
to access southbound SR 896 and SR 273 to SR 4 to continue to the southbound I-95 detour. Southbound SR 896
and all on and off ramps to and from southbound SR 896 will be closed overnight for girder installation.
DATES AND LOCATION (WEATHER PERMITTING)
• MONDAY FEBRUARY 19: OVERNIGHT CLOSURE, SOUTHBOUND I-95 at Exit 1 (SR 896 Interchange).
(11PM – 5AM). The detour route is as follows:
• Exit at SR 896 NB towards SR 4
• Left onto SR 4 towards Elkton Road
• Left on to Elkton Road back to SB I-95
• Monday February 19: RAMP CLOSURES, SB I-95 to SB SR 896, SB SR 896 to SB I-95, NB SR 896 to SB
1-95, (11PM - 5AM)
• Monday February 19: Multi-Lane closure, NB I-95 between Toll Plaza and SR 896 Interchange (7PM – 5AM)
• Monday February 19: Multi-Lane closure, SB I-95 between Service Plaza and SR 896 Interchange (8PM –
7AM)
• Monday February 19: Lane Closure, SR 896 SB from Field House to SR 4 (10PM – 7AM)
• Monday February 19: Rights in/ Rights out access, Elkton Road (SR 4 and MD I-95 Interchange), SR 4 (SR
72 to SR 896), and 896 NB and SB (Field House to SR 4) (8PM -7AM)