SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane drivers beware. Drivers will face detours on Wellesley Avenue between Market and Freya Street beginning May 28 and running through June 28.
The city and WSDOT crews are asking drivers to plan ahead for the closure and to expect a lot of traffic in the area.
In addition to lanes on Wellesley Ave. closing, crews will also close lanes on the North Spokane Corridor between the Wellesley Ave. interchange and the Freya Street interchange. Haven Street will also be reduced to one late southbound between Columbia Ave. and Rockwell Ave.
Construction crews will work on several projects including fixing drainage locations on the roadway, adding permanent striping and signage, painting northbound on-ramp barrier, installing the Children of the Sun medallions to the structure, overhead bridge work and paving the northbound and southbound off-ramps.
According to the City of Spokane, “during the closure, drivers who usually use the North Spokane Corridor south to the Wellesley Avenue interchange will be detoured off the freeway at Freya Street through the roundabout south toward Francis Avenue. Drivers can continue traveling south on Freya Street or make a right turn on Francis Avenue followed by a left turn onto Market Street to reach Wellesley Avenue.
Travelers who typically travel on Wellesley Avenue between Market Street and Freya Street can detour via either Euclid Avenue to the south or Francis Avenue to the north.”
That is not all the construction beginning in the region however. Next week a project will begin between North River Drive and Spokane Falls Blvd. where southbound lanes will be closed on Washington Street. That project will begins on Monday, June 3.
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