The Alabama Department of Transportation will be closing all lanes of U.S. 280 overnight for six hours this Friday, Saturday and Sunday night to begin setting girders for a new bridge over the highway at Pumphouse Road.

The road closure will begin at 11 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 14, with all lanes of the much-traveled federal highway being closed until 5 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 15. The same closing schedule will take place from 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, to 5 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, and from 11 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, to 5 a.m. Monday, Nov. 17.

However, all the eastbound lanes on U.S. 280 will remain closed for the entire weekend, beginning 11 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14 and reopening by 5 a.m. Monday, Nov. 17, ALDOT said.

The current Pumphouse Road bridge, its eastbound off-ramp and westbound on-ramp wi

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