Update: Lane Closure On Decatur's Martin Luther King Jr Drive

From the City of Decatur:

By Kirsten Born

Posted on October 23, 2019

This Lane Closure has been revised as follows:

September 17, 2019 — L.E. Myers Co, Inc. and L. Keeley Construction will both be performing work for Ameren on the transmission lines along Martin Luther King Jr Drive. Work will include removing transmission lines and existing lattice towers, then installing new monopoles and transmission lines. This work will cause the closure of the two West lanes on Martin Luther King Jr Drive and become one lane northbound and one lane southbound from East Pershing Road to East Ash Avenue beginning Friday, October 25, 2019, weather permitting. L. Keeley Construction will start their work at 7:00 a.m., Friday, October 25, 2019 and will continue to approximately 6:00 p.m., Thursday, November 7, 2019 with L.E. Myers Co, Inc. starting their work immediately following at 7:00 a.m., Friday, November 8, 2019 and continuing to approximately 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 4, 2019, therefore causing the West lanes of Martin Luther King Jr Drive between East Pershing Road and East Ash Avenue to be closed from 7:00 a.m., Friday, October 25, 2019 to approximately 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 4, 2019. Motorist should slow down, use extreme caution and should expect delays through the work zone. For further details, Shane Spears can be contacted on behalf of L. Keeley Construction at 314-421-5933 and Erick Blackwell can be contacted on behalf of The L.E. Myers Co., Inc. at 217-433-4963.

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