Officials are telling drivers to be aware this weekend.

The Brooks Road, Elvis Presley Boulevard intersection in Memphis will be shut down from Friday night until early Monday morning while the roadway is repaved.

It is part of a 5-year, $43 million project to improve the roadway that thousands of tourists take to visit Graceland.

Utilities along the targeted area will be placed underground.

There will be wider sidewalks, new traffic signals, crosswalks, bike facilities and lots of landscaping.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office will be conduct two sobriety checkpoints this Friday night, March 15, 2013, in an effort to battle impaired driving on county roadways.

The first of the two checkpoints will be conducted at the intersection of Hacks Cross and Meadow Vale from 8:30 until 10:30 p.m.

The second of the checkpoints will occur at the intersection of Hacks Cross and Lowrance from 11:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m.

More than 16,000 people are killed every year in the United States due to impaired driving.  Another 305,000 injuries occur due to impaired driving.  Twenty-seven percent of those killed on Tennessee highways are crashes where alcohol was involved.

The checkpoints are fully funded by federal grant dollars.

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