Interstate 110 construction teams are working day and night to complete the multi-year I-110 improvements and split diamond interchange projects.  Together these two construction efforts represent approximately $100 million of interstate improvements for Escambia County drivers. 
 
The work to widen I-110 to six lanes between the Airport Boulevard overpass and Maxwell Street is currently focused on paving operations.  Paving crews have completed the next-to-last layer of asphalt on I-110 and paving work at the Davis Highway-Fairfield Drive intersection.  The construction team is now working to identify and correct any imperfections to the roadway surfaces before applying the final or "friction" layer of asphalt.

 

Paving work is highly dependent on weather conditions.  Asphalt pavement cannot be applied during rainy and wet conditions, and construction specifications prevent application of the friction layer unless temperatures are above 45-degrees.
 
"The weather this time of year is a challenge for the paving crews," said project administrator Frank Tucker, a traffic engineer for Volkert Construction Services.  "The crews are working hard in an effort to complete the paving work and the entire project this spring."
 
Efforts continue to limit traffic impacts for the tens-of-thousands of drivers who travel this stretch of I-110 each day.  Work requiring lane restrictions is limited to 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.  The latest lane closure information is available here.