Project To Close Brooklyn Bridge Lanes Starting Monday
NEW YORK (CBS 2) -- Starting Monday, forget about overnight travel into Manhattan on the Brooklyn Bridge, for a few years at least.
A $500 million rehabilitation project on the span will begin at 11 p.m. tomorrow.
Manhattan-bound lanes will be closed overnight for every night until 2014.
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Crews will be expanding two ramps, replacing pavement and repainting steel to prevent corrosion.
It's the first major reconstruction project on the Brooklyn Bridge in a decade.
For a downloadable DOT brochure showing detour routes and closure dates and times, click here.
