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Night closures for 5 Freeway in south O.C. over weekend

Traffic on the 5 Freeway at night looking south from Oso Parkway moves at a crawl.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
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On consecutive nights this weekend, the 5 Freeway will be shut down in both directions in San Juan Capistrano as construction crew demolish the southern half of the Ortega Highway bridge.

The freeway, a primary north-south artery in southern Orange County, will be closed starting at 11 p.m. Friday, as will the Ortega Highway overpass. The freeway is scheduled to be reopened by 7 a.m. Saturday.

The cycle will be repeated Saturday night into Sunday morning.

Traffic, both northbound and south, will be routed off the freeway and around the construction work.

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The demolition work is expected to be completed by 7 a.m. Sunday, but Caltrans officials said it is possible that some of the work could be extended into the following weekend.

The north side of the bridge will be demolished at a later date.

The work is part of a nearly $90-million project to rebuild the interchange at Ortega Highway, which leads into downtown San Juan Capistrano in one direction and into the Cleveland National Forest in the other.

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