Southbound 71
CORONA (CNS) – Having begun on Monday evening and continuing for the next four weeks, nightly closures are planned on the southbound Corona (71) Expressway for construction, requiring motorists to take detours.
The weeknight shutdowns are slated to take place between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. Monday to Thursday, and midnight to 6 a.m. Fridays, resulting in all three southbound state Route 71 lanes being taken out of service from Butterfield Ranch Road in Chino Hills to the Riverside (91) Freeway in Corona, a nearly seven-mile stretch, according to the Riverside County Transportation Commission.
“The nighttime closures are needed as part of RCTC’s `71/91 Interchange Project’ and will allow construction crews to safely remove support structures from the recently constructed new sections of the connector,” according to an agency statement…