Indiana Department of Transportation

61st Avenue will have ramp and lane closures at I-65, starting as soon as Monday.

Parts of State Road 55 in Lake County will be closed for bridge work, starting as soon as Tuesday.

U.S. 12 will have lane closures in the Miller and Portage areas, starting as soon as Monday.

More road work is set to begin next week on Region highways.

On Monday night, overnight lane closures are planned in the northbound lanes between 61st and Ridge Road, with work switching to the southbound lanes the following night.

The Indiana Department of Transportation says shoulders will be closed at U.S. 20, starting as soon as Thursday. Crews will be replacing the overhead box truss structure over the eastbound lanes.

Road construction season is getting underway, as the Indiana Department of Transportation starts prep work for bridge projects on I-65 and Ripley Street.

Locally, Porter and Jasper counties got the maximum of $1.5 million. So did Dyer, Gary, Hebron, Munster, Portage, Valparaiso and Winfield.

The I-80/94 FlexRoad project is moving closer to construction. It's designed to improve traffic flow on Indiana's busiest interstate corridor.