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Major South End intersection to close Saturday as Broadway reconstruction advances
A traffic-pattern shift Saturday in the Broadway Street construction zone will include a complete shutdown of Broadway’s intersection with South Avenue, a city engineer said. The city contractor rebuilding Broadway between Western Avenue and Stebbins Street is nearly ready to open the rebuilt southbound lane through most of the zone, Christy Soncrant, a senior city engineer, said Thursday. Starting at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, closing down the single northbound lane and repositioning of detour signs for cross streets will begin, along with reopening the street to southbound traffic, she said. But for the next four to five weeks, South Avenue and Broadway will both be closed to all traffic while that intersection is rebuilt, the engineer said. Local access to portions of Broadway and South on either side of the intersection will be maintained, while through traffic will be detoured to Western Avenue for South and to the Anthony Wayne Trail for Broadway. Western Avenue, which has been closed at Broadway since early June, will reopen to through traffic across Broadway with a temporary traffic signal, and two-way traffic will be restored on Broadway between Western and Segur Avenue.
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