A stretch of the 5 Freeway will fully shut in a single day this week so staff can restore landslide injury, in line with the California Division of Transportation.
All southbound lanes between Vista Del Lago Street and Templin Freeway within the southern part of the Grapevine might be closed in a single day Monday by means of Thursday, stated division spokesman Michael Comeaux.
The closures close to Castaic might be in place from 10 p.m. to five a.m. every night time. One other closure is scheduled to start at 11:59 pm. Saturday and conclude at 8 the next morning.
Southbound site visitors might be detoured east onto Freeway 138 and south onto Freeway 14 to return to the southbound freeway, Caltrans stated in an announcement.
Two southbound lanes will reopen every morning following the closures.
The landslide was first noticed on March 21 and enlarged over the following a number of days, reaching the southbound shoulder on March 29, Comeaux stated. The restore work will management injury on the website and contain paving and restriping the affected space of the roadway.
Work additionally continues on a close-by stretch of the northbound freeway, which was broken in January when a hillside saturated by moist climate collapsed — sending a part of the slope into the 2 proper lanes.
