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A construction project beginning Monday will shut down a section of Interstate 480 in Omaha for about 3½ months and reroute traffic into Council Bluffs.

The work on the southbound I-480 ramps to eastbound I-80 and southbound U.S. Highway 75 will start Monday at 10 p.m., the Nebraska Department of Roads said.

Also, the southbound lanes of I-480 will be resurfaced from about Dewey Avenue south to the I-80 interchange. That work will be done each night from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. The lanes will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The ramps are scheduled to reopen and the resurfacing work is to be completed before the College World Series’ first pitch in mid-June, officials said.

Beginning July 5, the northbound lanes of I-480 will be resurfaced during the overnight hours, officials said, with that work also lasting about 3½ months.

Roads officials said southbound traffic on Highway 75 will be detoured east on I-480 just north of Dodge Street into the Bluffs and onto southbound I-29. Motorists will follow southbound I-29 to westbound I-80 back into Omaha and then take Kennedy Freeway/Highway 75 south.