New York Ave. bridge to close lanes this week

The D.C. Transportation Department plans to close two lanes of New York Avenue NE for work on the Ninth Street bridge each night this week.

Two lanes on the westbound side of New York Avenue will be closed to traffic from 7 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. The remaining lanes will be shifted so that there will be two lanes open to traffic in each direction, the agency said in a news release.

There will be additional, intermittent lane closures each night, for about 15 minutes at a time, to avoid setting steel girders in place over moving traffic, DDOT said.

According to the release, the work should be completed by Saturday.

For more information on the work being done along the New York Avenue corridor, visit DDOT's project Web site at http://www.fixingnewyorkave.com.