Main Street To Be Closed In Newport Monday Dec 4

An upcoming road closure may affect your travel to downtown Newport Monday. The city of Newport says that Norfolk Southern Railroad will be doing maintenance work Monday morning, December 4 and that will require the closing of Main Street in downtown Newport. The closure will run from McMahan to Baer Avenue as well as one lane of the North Side of Main Street from Mims to Baer until the work has advanced beyond that area.

Norfolk Southern will begin the work at 8:30 Monday morning, giving school buses time to run. Their goal is to have Main Street reopened completely by 3pm Monday afternoon. Gary Carver with the city of Newport says you should plan on avoiding Main Street all day Monday, and prepare to use alternate routes instead.