The Bartholomew County Highway Department says that Lowell Road will be closed starting today through Friday for road improvements.

That work will be from 8 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon, says Danny Hollander, the county highway engineer.

That work will be from Lowell Bridge at County Road 325W to the interstate. Hollander said that the work would including widening the road from its current 19 to 20 feet, to 24 feet.

Hollander says that traffic on Lowell Road has more than tripled in recent years. He said a major overhaul project is in the works but because it is a federally funded project that won’t start until at least 2023.