Get ready for more detours and delays. The Nebraska Department of Roads has announced a $640-million budget for the fiscal year's roadwork.

The Dodge Street expressway overpass is slated to receive $15-million of that money for bridge work.

Preparation work for the elevated expressway is already in progress. The Department of Roads has scheduled the work with the aim of reducing any negative impact on local businesses.

USA Auto's Troy Robey is worried about doing business in the construction zone but if he can weather the lean times, he's optimistic about the future.

Robey says, "I'm going to stick it out as long as I possibly can, until it's unbearable with regards to the construction. I know this: In the long run, Dodge Street and 114th is still a very, very good part of Omaha."

But Robey also sees all the backups and understands something has to be done to alleviate the congestion. He just wishes the plan didn't put such a big risk on his livelihood.

"I kind of have mixed views on the overpass," he says. "I think that for the development of Omaha, I think it has some viable advantages to it."

Over the next few years the state will spend an additional $30-million on the expressway bridges but it won't be an even split. The eastbound lanes will actually cost about $2-million more than the westbound lanes.

Construction is project to run through the year 2008.