Toledo’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge will be closed to all traffic for about four hours Tuesday and then to vehicular traffic for five consecutive days starting Wednesday, the Toledo Department of Transportation announced.
The closing Tuesday is for a bridge lift test scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. Such tests are performed annually before the start of the Great Lakes shipping season.
The second closing is for a concrete pour on the bridge deck’s upstream side scheduled for Wednesday. Pedestrians and bicyclists will be allowed to cross the bridge, but motor vehicles will be barred because they could cause vibrations damaging to the fresh concrete.
The closing is scheduled to be removed at “end of day” March 9. A posted detour will direct traffic to the Craig Memorial Bridge via Summit Street and Front Street.
Among events for which the bridge closing could affect traffic are a Rascal Flatts concert Friday evening at the Huntington Center and three Toledo Walleye home hockey games at the same arena Wednesday and Saturday evenings and late Sunday afternoon.
The concrete pour is part of ongoing construction on the King Bridge that has restricted it to one lane each way since mid-2024. Repairs have been made on and beneath the outside lanes in each direction, and the traffic pattern is being reconfigured to create a bicycle/pedestrian lane on the upstream side.
First Published February 28, 2025, 10:43 p.m.
