DORR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A 6-mile stretch of southbound US-131 remained shut down Thursday, two days after a semi-truck's too-tall load slammed into the 146th Avenue overpass.

As we come up on Labor Day weekend, crews are racing against time to get it reopened.

Anyone driving south from 84th Street in Kent County down to 142nd Avenue in Allegan County is being diverted to surface streets like Division or Clyde Park avenues. Cars and trucks that would be typically speeding down the freeway were instead waiting in a long backup Thursday.

When driving on these streets, commuters say the impact is clear.

“Yesterday I went to Qdoba and … it was just dead stop traffic,” Jess Gleason from Byron Center said. “It usually takes me about five minutes to get to 100th Street. It took me about

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