MassDOT Closing Tewksbury Street Bridge In Andover

ANDOVER, MA -- The Massachusetts Department of Transportation will indefinitely close a bridge on Tewksbury Street in Andover that the Pan Am Railroad tracks. The closure was ordered because oif the bridge's condition and goes into effect at 7 am on Saturday. MassDOT is working on a repair plan to allow the bridge to be reopened to one-way, alternating traffic.

Until that plan is developed, MassDOT is setting up detours:

• Westbound traffic will be directed to follow Andover Street; left onto Dascomb Road; left onto Shawsheen Street and follow to its intersection with Vale Street in Tewksbury Street.
• Eastbound traffic will be directed to follow Shawsheen Street; right onto Dascomb Road; right onto Andover Street and follow to its intersection with Tewksbury Street in Andover.

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