PORTLAND, Oregon — Anyone traveling on Interstate 205 in West Linn Thursday morning should expect heavy delays as contractors perform a controlled detonation west of Highway 43, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT).
ODOT said there will be a 15-minute closure of I-205 in both directions, between 10th Street in West Linn and 99E in Oregon City, to allow the work to be performed.
Around that, there will be slowdowns for about a two-hour window between 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. There will be a number of road closures within the city of West Linn as well to allow contractors to detonate what appears to be two blasting caps discovered underground. They were likely used during the original construction of the Abernethy Bridge, ODOT said in a press release. There is no danger to the public.
The Abernethy Bridge carries about 103,000 vehicles per day, according to 2018 ODOT traffic counts, along I-205 over the Willamette River between the communities of West Linn and Oregon City.
Here are some links to ODOT's traffic cameras in the vicinity of the work zone:
You can see a full suite of cameras on ODOT's website, TripCheck.com.
For more on the work being performed along the I-205 corridor, here's a link to ODOT's project website.
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