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Typically use Highway 500 to get across town? You should make different plans for this weekend.

Crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation plan to remove the stop lights at the intersections of Northeast 42nd Avenue/Falk Road and Northeast 54th Avenue/Stapleton Road and replace them with right-in/right-out interchanges.

Starting Monday morning, motorists will no longer have to stop at a red light on Highway 500, but they will no longer be able to turn left either.

Starting at 11 p.m. Friday, construction crews will close the highway in either direction between St. Johns Boulevard and Northeast Andresen Road. Drivers are likely to see construction crews setting up in the area prior to closure.

The plan is to have the highway completely reconfigured and reopened by 4 a.m. Monday.