UPDATE: An overheight vehicle is to blame for Thursday's midday closure of the Michigan Street Bridge. The vehicle damaged the bridge's traffic signals, forcing the DOT to close the downtown artery from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The repairs the bridge received on Thursday were unrelated to the annual maintenance the Michigan Street Bridge will receive next week. The Michigan Street Bridge will be closed daily, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Monday, May 20, Tuesday, May 21, Wednesday, May 22, and Thursday, May 24 for its annual cleaning and planned maintenance.
ORIGINAL STORY: You will not be able to use the Michigan Street Bridge for approximately three hours on Thursday due to some emergency electrical repairs being needed. Wisconsin Department of Transportation Regional Communications Director Mark Kantola issued the alert at 10:40 a.m. that the Michigan Street Bridge would close at 11 a.m. He is unsure exactly what happened, but the repairs are needed to fix damaged traffic signals. Kantola expects the repairs to take approximately three hours and be finished by early this afternoon. We will update this story as soon as it becomes available.
