The Northland Bridge for highway 15 over I-41. January 23, 2025. PC: Fox 11 Online
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Since April 2024, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has been hard at work on the I-41 corridor from Appleton to Green Bay, and it’s made some serious progress.
That includes Northland Avenue in Appleton.
“15 is probably the biggest one,” said Bryan Learst, construction project manager for I-41. “We still have the ramps, the southbound ramps, to get closed, but the diverging diamond interchange is 75% open with the ramps, and then 15 across that takes a lot of stress off of other roads so you can get across 41.”
With multiple overpass jobs underway or already finished, Learst said the next step may bring more traffic to 41. The plan is to shift work to the interstate starting in spring.
“With our interchange projects, they impact kind of, spot locations with trying to get off of there, and where you’re going,” he explained. “With our mainline projects, you have five miles where you’re in between barrier wall for that entire stretch, so there’s more impact to commuters with our main line project starting.”
Alongside the main line work, there are still plenty of other overpasses and interchanges that need to be addressed, according to Design Project Manager Scott Ebel.
“One of the big ones is our Highway 47 interchange reconstruction. That’s going to be starting next spring. We’re also going to be replacing the French Road overpass bridge, that will also be starting next spring,” he said.
And while work in the winter will slow down, the DOT is getting ready to hit the ground running next year.
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