Updated MassDOT Advisory: Taunton

Overnight Hour Bridge Replacement Operations and Related Work at Route 24 and Route 140 Interchange
 
Detours will be in place on Route 140 northbound and southbound starting at 10 p.m., on Sunday, December 12, Monday, December 13, Tuesday, December 14, and Wednesday December 15 and concluding the following day by 5 a.m.

  
TAUNTON – The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing it will be conducting overnight hour bridge replacement operations and related work along a section of Route 24 at the interchange with Route 140 in Taunton. The work will occur nightly from Sunday, December 12, through Thursday morning, December 16, during overnight hours from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. the following morning. Work will require a temporary detour of Route 140 northbound and southbound.  The work is anticipated to conclude by 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 16. The work was previously scheduled to begin on Monday, December 13.

The temporary detour of Route 140 northbound and southbound as outlined below is necessary to facilitate bridge steel erection operations.