Crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation will close Fourth Avenue South in SODO for three nights this week, from May 27 through 29.

Each night at 7 p.m. from Wednesday to Friday crews will close all lanes of Fourth Avenue South between South Royal Brougham Way and South Atlantic Street/Edgar Martinez Drive South. The street will reopen by 5 a.m. each morning.

A signed detour will divert drivers to Sixth Avenue South.

During the closures crews will remove a sign bridge, move median curbing and restripe the southbound lanes of Fourth Avenue South. The work will create a work area in the middle of the southbound lanes just south of South Royal Brougham Way.

The work area will give crews room to safely build a portion of the new westbound I-90 and I-5 off-ramp to South Atlantic Street/Edgar Martinez Drive South.

This construction is part of the $84.35 million SR 519 Intermodal Access Project. In the project crews are building the new off-ramp and a bridge over the railroad tracks on South Royal Brougham Way. The project also includes the recently completed widening of the First Avenue South and South Atlantic Street/Edgar Martinez Drive South

The state says the improvements will create a safer SR 519 for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, and move freight, daily commuters, sports fans and ferry travelers faster through the corridor. For more information, go here.