Drivers brace for Friday night closure of 2-mile stretch of I-285: ‘I can’t stay home’

Starting at 7 p.m., a two-mile stretch of Interstate 285 will close on the west side of the city and won’t open back up until 5 a.m. on Monday.

While there will be detours, people who live near the area where the interstate is shutting down are worried about the traffic on surrounding roads as well, people like Jerri Harper.

“I can’t stay home. I go to church,” Harper told Channel 2’s Berndt Petersen.

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