I-95 closures as PennDOT continues work on Penn's Landing CAP project

hoping it gets done quickly you know what I mean done and over with commuters and business owners are dealing with another round of weekend closures along I95 pendock crews are now working on the southbound Lanes near Penn's Landing until Monday morning Saturday night I'm Walter Perez the big story in Action News is a roughly another 31 hours of detours as the multi-million dollar I95 cap project continues a few weeks ago you may remember Northbound lanes were closed between exits 20 and 22 Crews are working on that same stretch now but on the southbound side but we're told this section could be a bit more problematic action news reporter Brian Gallagher joins us live from Penn's Landing tonight with details Brianna hey Walter yeah crews are hard at work on these southbound lanes over here behind me that have been closed you can hear them you can see them these southbound Lanes have been officially closed since around 5:00 this evening official say this demolition is a little bit trickier than the one that closed the Northbound Lanes a few weeks ago that's because Cru have less room for equipment to remove all of that debris drone 6 overhead shows the construction Crews wasting no time large excavators ripped apart the concrete which dropped below to the shuttered lanes of 95 south the southbound Lanes of I95 will be closed until Monday morning between exit 22 the I 676 callow Hill Street ramp and the mo Street ramp officials have been warning drivers to prepare for detours and a lot of traffic this weekend depending on where you're coming from I think the backups are going to be extensive on Columbus Boulevard Ray Street 6 Street Delaware Avenue even Aramingo pendot says drivers will be directed to use alternate routes including Exit 23 the Gerard Avenue interchange or exit 22 the callow Hill Street interchange people who work in the area are not thrilled about the closures it's ridiculous because just to get in and out of the city it's taking at least over 35 minutes so it's been hard for us we're a lot of delivery drivers out here so we're back and forth constantly so that's holding us up is just killing us it's also impacting Uber drivers who will most likely have less rides this weekend I'm an Uber driver so going up and down 95 is kind of part of what I do how will you go about your weekend a lot of surface streets and trying to avoid rides probably won take rides going up the 95 Corridor if I can avoid it the I95 cap project will replace and expand the covered area over 95 between Chestnut and Walnut Streets with a park that is nearly 12 acres the $329 million project is expected to be finished by Spring of 28 it's long overdue uh to have something like that in Philly end goal is great but hopefully they can keep to their timeline now the southbound lanes are expected to reopen by 5:00 on Monday morning however officials said if Crews do not finish what they need to this weekend they'll be prepared to add additional closures for now we're live from pens Landing Brian Gallagher fora news at 10: on PHL 17 Walter okay Brianna thank you