Significant changes to the Main Street Bridge and Edmonds Lane traffic flow are on the horizon as the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) pushes forward with construction. As reported by the Lewisville Police Department's social media update, drivers should prepare for the removal of traffic signals at Edmonds Road starting tomorrow at 9 a.m. This change is a part of a new design that will permanently close the median opening on Main Street to Edmonds Lane, resulting in the inability of westbound drivers on Main Street to make the left turn onto Edmonds Lane.
The department's post further informs that later the same evening, beginning at 8 p.m., crews will undertake a traffic switch onto the new Westbound Main Street Bridge. This operation will entail mobile lane closures and preliminary striping work extending into the early hours of Thursday, August 21, anticipated to be wrapped up by 5 a.m., the overnight changes pave the way for a smoother tomorrow, yet they require the present's patience, an investment in rushes and halts and the promise of a streamlined traverse on the morrow.
Also, the schedule for the demolition of the existing Main Street Bridge has been delineated: beginning on Friday, August 22, at 10 p.m., and expected to take two nights for completion. "The old remaining portion of the Main Street bridge will be demolished after traffic has been switched onto the new bridge," the Lewisville Police Department noted in their post. This extensive work will lead to closures, effectively stemming the flow of all northbound and southbound traffic on I-35E, with considered detours rerouting via Fox Avenue/Main Street for northbound vehicles and Valley Ridge Blvd for those headed southbound.
Further disruptions will manifest through the weekend, as demolition persists and the managed lanes remain sealed from passage; even on the newly ushered bridge, one lane in each direction will succumb to closure during the Friday and Saturday night operations, these intermissions in passage, a bid to disassemble the old, and make way for the new, assurances of progress oftentimes come at the cost of small discomforts, the night's restlessness, promises a more connected dawn.
