The northbound lane of the Willowbrook Connector (208th Street) between 65th and 68th Avenues are closed to traffic as of Wednesday, Sept. 20, until March 2024.

The partial closure is related to construction for widening that section of 208th Street just outside the Costco parking lot, which was approved by 91原创 Township council in May this year.

Closing the northbound lane was required to install underground utilities, according to the 208th Street widening project.

It will be closed 24-hours a day.

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Signage is redirecting traffic from 65th Avenue to 203rd Street. Other alternate routes drivers can take are 200th Street, or Glover Road to 216th Street.

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When the Willowbrook connector has been widened, it will include protected bike lanes, new pedestrian crossings and traffic signals, a multi-use path on the west side and a sidewalk on the east side, four new bus stops, and the intersection at 64th Avenue will be expanded to have dual left turn lanes, to meet future traffic demands.

Widening 208th Street has been a longtime problem for the Township.

For years, road-widening in Willoughby has taken place by individual developers. This means that much of the northern portion of 208th Street, between 76th Avenue and the overpass to Walnut Grove, has been widened. But the widening has taken place haphazardly as each piece of property has been developed.

Some areas, where development has been stalled, narrow to one lane running north or south even as major condo projects are built next door or across the street. The road widens and narrows between two, three, and four lanes at various places.

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