The Indiana Department of Transportation closed County Road 975W at U.S. 50 in western Jackson County on Wednesday morning to make way for construction of a traffic runaround for the east-west highway at a bridge replacement site.

INDOT officials contacted the only resident on County Road 975W affected by this two- to three-week closure. Alternate access should minimize inconvenience to that property owner, according to the state.

Force Construction of Columbus is the state’s contractor for this $3.4 million bridge and small structure replacement project that will construct a single-span 90-foot-long concrete bridge on U.S. 50 over Clear Spring Creek 3.35 miles west of State Road 235.

A nearby drainage structure also will be removed and replaced.

The runaround will allow continuous traffic flow on U.S. 50 while crews remove and replace the Clear Spring Creek bridge.

U.S. 50’s traffic count at the site is 4,080 vehicles per day.