MoDOT to work on roads in Cape, Scott, New Madrid counties

A section of Highway B in Cape Girardeau County will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday while MoDOT crews replace drainage pipe beneath the road, according to a news release from the transportation agency.

The section is located eight-tenths of a mile north of Highway 72, between county roads 462 and 469.

A section of U.S. Highway 61 in Cape Girardeau County will be reduced to one lane from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday while crews perform shoulder repairs in the northbound and southbound lanes. Work will continue during the same hours Thursday.

The section of road is located from the Interstate 55 ramp to the Jackson city limits.

Work will continue on U.S. Highway 60 from I-55 to U.S. 61 in New Madrid and Scott counties, reducing that road to one lane through 5 p.m. May 6.

Concrete repairs will also continue on Interstate 57 in Scott and Mississippi counties through 5 p.m. May 6. The northbound lanes will be reduced from I-55 to Highway B at Bertrand. 

For more information call MoDOT at 1-888-ASK-MODOT.