495 Closures to Impact Traffic This Weekend

I-495 North and South will be closed overnight at Route 50 this weekend. 

The closures will begin at 9:30 p.m. on Friday and last until 7 a.m. Saturday. Construction crews will be doing bridge work and traffic will be detoured to the collector lane adjacent to I-495 North.

Once work is completed on I-495 North, the construction crews will move to I-495 South and close all lanes at Exit 50 for Route 50 over night from 9:30 p.m. on Saturday to 9 a.m. on Sunday. Traffic will be detoured to the collector lane adjacent to I-495 South. 

This weekend, the Virginia Department of Transportation will also close three lanes of I-66 westbound at I-495 beginning at 10 p.m. Friday night through 8 a.m. Saturday morning. The lanes will be closed again from 10 p.m. Saturday to 9 a.m. Sunday, so crews can remove an old overhead box girder. 

After midnight, all lanes on I-66 westbound at I-495 will be closed for up to 30 minutes at a time throughout the night. Drivers can expect a one-hour temporary stoppage to occur between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. 

Crews will also close Exit 49, I-495 south to I-66 west and traffic will be directed to continue on I-495 south to Exit 52B, Little River Turnpike (Route 236) east, follow signage to I-495 north to Exit 49A, I-66 west.  

In the case of inclement weather, the contruction work will be rescheduled for June 29-30. The work is part of the I-495 Express Lanes Project, which will be completed in late 2012.