MoDOT is about to widen Highway 65 from Evans Road to Highway CC in Ozark.

Highway 65 is already six lanes north of Evans Road, and the next step is to take it down to the next exit at Highway CC, another mile down the road.

MoDOT says the project will begin in August and will take about a year to finish.

"We see a lot of traffic on the rush hours, so trying to provide the additional capacity out there but to also improve the safety and keep traffic flowing at a reasonable speed and not having those rear end collisions." said John Sanders, project manager with MoDOT.

But MoDOT doesn't believe there will be many lane closures while work is going on.

"Most of the work will be done in the medians so the traffic will see lane closures at night while they are working in the median. But during the day you aren't going to see a lot of affected traffic." said Sanders.

They say one stretch of road that will have some lane shifts will be while they widen the southbound lanes over the Farmer's Branch bridge.

Another big piece of the work will be done on the Evans Road bridge.

"They are going to tear off the existing bridge deck on that Evan's road bridge and they will replace that." said Sanders.

The bridge will be closed the entire time they work on it, which means you won't be able to get across it.

"We would send traffic heading northbound and wanting to get across to the other side of the bridge, they would have to go to Battlefield road, and do a U-turn there and then come back to the Evan's road. And then the same thing for southbound. They will have to go down to Route CC and turn around and come back." said Sanders.

The Evans Road bridge part of the project will go from August to December, and the 65 widening will take from August to next August.