BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — Northbound Essen Lane at I-10 is set to close.

The closures will be in 30 minute intervals. It's set to happen from 11:00 p.m. tonight until 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday.

Southbound Essen Lane is set to experience the same construction on Wednesday night.

The lanes are closing and being worked on as part of the Geaux Wider project.

DOTD is asking you to avoid that area.