Suwanee Traffic: Closure of Pleasant Hill Bridge Begins June 7

Check out our interactive map above to find where, when and why local roads will be closed for construction, from the Gwinnett DOT. (Updated weekly)

Update from the Gwinnett Department of Transportation of the construction of the Diverging Diamond Interchange near Duluth. (From a Gwinnett DOT press release):

Gwinnett County Transportation will close the I-85 at Pleasant Hill Road bridge for the Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) crossover. The closure will begin at 9:00pm on Friday, June 7, weather and conditions permitting. The bridge will open to traffic by 5:00am on Monday, June 10 with the new DDI configuration.

During the weekend, the bridge will be closed to all through traffic; however, right turn access to and from I-85 will not be impacted. For safety reasons, pedestrian traffic on the bridge will be prohibited for at least one month following the crossover of traffic while the pedestrian walkways are constructed.

Detour route

During the weekend of construction, drivers and pedestrians should take Pleasant Hill Road to Satellite Boulevard to Steve Reynolds Boulevard to Shackleford Road to Pleasant Hill Road and the reverse as their detour. Gwinnett County Transportation staff will monitor traffic flow and signals in this area during the closure to help keep traffic moving. Pedestrian traffic should continue to use the detour route after the crossover occurs for approximately one month. Click here to review the detour map. 

Construction continues

After crossover, construction will continue for the center median and pedestrian facilities and finalization of the signals and pavement markings. The project is expected to be complete in September with landscaping to begin in the fall. Once the project is complete, the DDI at Pleasant Hill Road and I-85 will be Gwinnett County’s first diverging diamond interchange and the second in Georgia.

Click here for the closure crossover information.