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The Long Beach (710) Freeway will be closed two nights per weekend, starting next Friday, as a major reconstruction project continues in southeastern Los Angeles County.

The 710 Freeway will be closed in both directions between Florence Avenue and Washington Boulevard on late Friday nights and late Sunday nights, for the next three weekends. That area is several miles south of the Santa Ana (5) Freeway, and north of the 105 Freeway.

Although the 710 Freeway will reopen on the following mornings, through traffic lanes will be significantly reduced all day on Saturdays, all night Saturday nights, and also closed continuing through Sundays and into the nights.

Caltrans engineers said they hope to finish the work in three weekends, but it may take six weekends of closures to get them work done.

Full freeway closures on the 710 will begin at about 11:59 p.m. Friday nights, with the freeway reopening with significant lane closures at 6 a.m. Saturdays.

Then again on Sunday nights, at 11 p.m., both directions of the 710 will be closed, to reopen at 5 a.m. Mondays with all lanes open.

Ramps in the Bell Gardens area will be closed, at Florence Avenue, and Atlantic Boulevard.

Caltrans officials urged motorists to avoid the 710 between the 60 and 105 freeways if at all possible on the next three to six weekends. They suggested using the 110 or 605 freeways to give the construction zone a wide berth.

The closure pattern will free up about half of the freeway at a time, and workers will use the 55 hours each weekend to replace concrete slabs, upgrade the wooden median guardrail to concrete and build pullouts for maintenance trucks.

Shimmick/Myers and Sons is the contractor for the $120 million rebuild of the 55-year-old freeway, a project that started in 2012 and will end in 2016.

— City News Service

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