DOT: Expect overnight lane closures on Route 347 in Smithtown

Drivers should expect lane closures late Thursday into overnight as well as late Friday into overnight on a portion of westbound Route 347 in the Town of Smithtown, state officials said.

The closures, between Terry Road in Smithtown and Gibbs Pond Road in Nesconset, will be in effect while resurfacing work is done from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., the state Department of Transportation said.

The work is part of the $36.2 million DOT project “to improve motorists’ safety and mobility by transforming the roadway into a modified boulevard and suburban greenway for 15 miles through the towns of Smithtown, Islip, and Brookhaven,” the DOT said in a news release.