Interstate 65 motorists could see delays for the next month or so while sections in both directions between Cave City and Park City are rehabilitated.

While not impacting motorists much, in a separate project, bids are expected to be awarded today to tear down both south and northbound rest areas near Smiths Grove.

Those rest areas will be closed Sept. 15 in preparation for the work to take them out, according to Keirsten Jaggers, spokeswoman for the Department of Highways in Bowling Green.

“The roadway was online for resurfacing due to the deterioration of the concrete,” Jaggers said of the work near Cave City. “Pot hole patching last winter was many times an all-day activity for our crews.”

Jaggers said the contract for the project was let in June to Scotty’s Contracting and Stone for $7.4 million to take up the concrete and replace it with asphalt.

The project is 5.145 miles and runs from mile marker 46.8 to mile marker 52 and is currently scheduled for completion in early October.

“Around-the-clock lane closures can be expected from Sunday evening, beginning at 8 p.m., until 7 a.m. Thursday morning,” she said.

Jaggers said crews won’t be out this Sunday or Monday because of the holiday weekend.

Bids are expected to be let early this fall for installation of the cable barriers in Barren and Hart counties. The metal cables are expected to help prevent cross-over crashes such as the one earlier this year in Hart County that killed five people. This section of the roadway is just two lanes in both directions and construction funding to do so is not anywhere in the near term.

By July, all the work to widen I-65 to six lanes near the state line will be complete.

“So then we will have six lanes all the way to mile marker 43,” Jaggers said.

Work now is going on in Simpson County on the I-65, Ky. 100 bridge; that work is limiting the widths of loads going south.

Design of I-65’s interchange with Scottsville Road is coming along well, according to Greg Meredith, chief district highway engineer for the Department of Highways in Bowling Green.

Meredith said the interchange will be an “urban” design with just one point of entry from both lanes in the middle of the Scottsville Road bridge. There currently are two different entry spots.

Meredith said an expansion/ possible relocation of Three Springs Road will be designed separately.

The state also continues to make progress on its widening of Lovers Lane to four lanes, with some turn lanes. Traffic on the newest section will be switched in about three weeks, Meredith said.

There still is no word on when or if a new access road to Crossroads IGA will be constructed, Jaggers said. Area property owner O.L. Avery donated land for the new road so that a traffic light just feet from one at Lovers Lane and Cemetery Road could be eliminated.

The Lovers Lane expansion closer to Scottsville Road will be complete sometime next year.

The city is continuing with its project to realign the curve on Broadway Avenue in downtown Bowling Green.

But the original completion date of late October or early November may be too ambitious at this point, according to public works director Emmett Wood.

Wood said work has been delayed some because more rock than was expected was encountered when relocating a storm sewer.