HARRISONBURG, Va. (ROCKTOWN NOW) – Drivers should be alert for travel-lane shifts next Tuesday on westbound Route 33 in Harrisonburg.

The Virginia Department of Transportation reports the travel-lane shifts will take place around the Interstate 81 exit 247 interchange, between the Linda Lane and Burgess Road intersection and the bridge over the Norfolk Southern Railway.

Just west of the intersection, westbound Route 33 drivers will shift onto newly built roadway and the first phase of the new bridge over I-81 and then shift back onto the original roadway.

Incidentally, from 8 p.m. Tuesday night to 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, the ramp from northbound I-81 to westbound Route 33 at exit 247B will be closed.