BATON ROUGE - Airline Highway will be closed at the Kansas City Southern railroad track east of the Old Mississippi River Bridge for railroad repairs.

The roadway will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday night until 5 a.m. Monday. Crews will be replacing the tracks, according to a release from DOTD.

The detour for the route is below:

Westbound US 190 (From Baton Rouge): Traffic will be detoured onto I-110 Southbound toward I-10 West.

Eastbound US 190 (From Opelousas): Traffic will be detoured onto LA 1 Southbound toward I-10 East.

US 190 East will be closed at LA 1 in Port Allen and US 190 West will be closed past Scenic Hwy in Baton Rouge from 7PM Friday until 5AM Monday due to railroad reconstruction operations. Check https://t.co/87MKXYDTAh pic.twitter.com/hJnKJMVjli

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