BY TOM O'NEILL
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Construction of the Fort Washington Way project will return to normal today after work was slowed for the weekend's Coors Light Festival and Ujima Cinci-bration downtown.
The big change will occur next Monday when traffic is shifted to the east lanes and access from Columbia Parkway to Fort Washington Way will be closed.
Motorists will have to take either Eggleston Avenue or the Fifth Street viaduct, John Deatrick, a city engineer and project manager of the Fort Washington Way overhaul, said Sunday.
Work this week will include changing signs, taking out the median barrier north of the Lytle Tunnel, and constructing crossovers at each end of the project.
The $146.9 million project is scheduled to be completed in August 2000.
Its completion is expected to coincide with the opening of the Bengals' new home, Paul Brown Stadium, which is under construction west of Cinergy Field, just south of Fort Washington Way.
Mr. Deatrick said that so far the highway project is under budget and ahead of schedule.
