Expect delays: Another bandage for a crumbling Beltway bridge - WTOP Morning Headlines - Friday, February 08, 2019

Beginning around 9 p.m. Friday, the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration plans to block three left lanes on the Inner Loop between Maryland Route 450 and U.S. Route 50 in Lanham. Traffic will move past the work zone in a single file on the bridge above Amtrak railroad tracks while crews fix a bad expansion joint. Find out when the work will wrap up. [Logo](#) MORNING HEADLINES - February 08, 2019 [mobile-header-ad]( [alt text here]( [mobile-img]( [alt text here]( [Expect delays: Another bandage for a crumbling Beltway bridge]( Beginning around 9 p.m. Friday, the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration plans to block three left lanes on the Inner Loop between Maryland Route 450 and U.S. Route 50 in Lanham. Traffic will move past the work zone in a single file on the bridge above Amtrak railroad tracks while crews fix a bad expansion joint. Find out when the work will wrap up. 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