The state Department of Transportation announced plans to shift Route 72 traffic four times during a three-week span beginning this week. The traffic pattern change is part of the Route 72 culvert replacement and roadway improvement project between the Garden State Parkway and the Stafford Square shopping center.

Beginning at 9 p.m. onMonday, March 4, until 6 a.m. March 5, state contractor Earle Asphalt Co., will close one lane of Route 72, both eastbound and westbound, to implement a traffic…