NORTH MAYFAIR — Good news for motorists: Foster Avenue has reopened after a one-month closure between Cicero and Pulaski.
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced it has completed repair work on the Foster Avenue bridge over the Chicago River, which required a complete shutdown of the Pulaski-to-Cicero stretch of the thoroughfare.
Auto traffic had been diverted to Lawrence Avenue and CTA buses were rerouted onto Peterson Avenue.
Foster Avenue is now open to motorists, pedestrians and cyclists in both directions.
The completion of the bridge work is particularly timely, given that as many as 100 trucks a day will be traversing Foster to the Edens Expressway as part of the Albany Park Storm Water Diversion Tunnel construction project.
Beginning at the end of October, debris from the tunnel's two construction sites — one near Eugene Field Park, the other in River Park — will be hauled away via trucks, which are expected to enter Foster Avenue at the rate of one truck every five minutes, according to project engineers.
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