WOOLWICH
Beginning Monday, some motorists must take a four-plus-mile detour while crews replace bridge struts on Route 128 three-quarters of a mile north of Brushwood Road.
Wyman & Simpson is the contractor for the state Department of Transportation project, which has a target completion date of Oct. 26. Traffic will be closed over Brox Stream beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, Aug. 5.
Road Commissioner Jack Shaw said Monday that people living along a two-mile stretch between Chops Cross Road and Goose Cove will be most affected by the closure. School buses and the Chops Point van also will have to take the detour, he said.
The detour will be located about five miles from U.S. Route 1, Shaw said. Anyone coming from the northern end of town to U.S. 1 — or from U.S. 1 to the northern end of town — can simply take Route 27, he said.
But for those taking the detour, they must travel up Route 127 to Indian Road back to 128, a distance of just over four miles.
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