Caution: Detours ahead

Travel just got a little more complicated in Jay County.

The Indiana Department of Transportation has announced the closing of a number of area highways and restrictions to one-lane travel at other locations.

INDOT will close the intersection of Ind. 26 and Ind. 167 at the Jay-Blackford county line on Monday, April 6. Work is slated for a major reconstruction project on Ind. 26 from the county line to Ind. 1 this spring and summer.

The intersection is expected to be closed for 25 days. Then the three-mile section to Ind. 1 will be closed for 135 days as the highway is widened and repaved. Shoulders will be added the full length of the roadway, and five box culverts with wing walls will be replaced. The Ind. 26 bridge over Mud Creek will also be replaced.

Ind. 1 at Redkey was barricaded with week for reconstruction of a roadbed from south of Wayne Avenue to north of Boyce Street.

Work has resumed on the Ind. 167 project in Dunkirk. Traffic will be restricted and occasionally closed from the railroad tracks downtown to the north city limits.

In addition, Ind. 167 from Dunkirk to Albany will be micro-surfaced next month. Patching will begin after May 1, with resurfacing crews scheduled for 12 days later. Flaggers will direct traffic around worksites.

Two culvert replacement projects on Ind. 167 are also scheduled. A concrete culvert just north of Dunkirk will be replaced, requiring the highway to be closed for 45 days, beginning soon after July 4.

Another culvert replacement is planned along Ind. 26 west of Ind. 167 at Debatty Prong later this construction season.

Meanwhile in Portland, work will be resuming on the Boundary Street project that began last year and INDOT survey crews are at work on Ind. 26 east from Meridian Street to the city limits in advance of a project later this year.[[In-content Ad]]