A week following the truck inferno that saw a Philadelphia section of the I-95 collapse, Pennsylvania’s governor said progress has been made and the roadway will reopen in two weeks.

“I can state with confidence that we will have I-95 reopened within the next two weeks,” Gov. Josh Shapiro told reporters at a briefing with President Joe Biden at Philadelphia International Airport. “We are going to get traffic moving again thanks to the extraordinary work of those here and our incredible union trade workers.”

Officials have come up with a temporary solution that will speed up access to the main highway.

Instead of waiting for a full reconstruction of the highway, temporary lanes are in the process of being elevated into the damaged section of the highway.

The state’s Department of Transportation (PennDOT) said in a statement on Sunday night that the temporary structure will sit on the existing roadway below, with the void being filled with a “specially designed, Pennsylvania-made recycled glass aggregate” to meet the existing I-95 overpass.

PennDOT hired Philadelphia-based contractor Buckley & Company to provide the backfill for the gap left open in the I-95 overpass after it collapsed onto an exit ramp when a gasoline tanker carrying 8,500 gallons of fuel caught fire right below.

The heat from the fire melted the roadway’s steel support structures, causing a 100-feet section of the overpass in the northeast corner of the city, which services an average of 160,000 vehicles a day, to collapse.

Truck driver Nathan Moody, 53, died in the accident early June 11. Fortunately, no other people were injured.

Workers will fill the gap—which is roughly 150 feet wide—by piling recycled foam glass aggregate into the underpass area, bringing it up to surface level, and then paving it over, Shapiro said.

“This approach will allow us to avoid delays due to shipping and supply chain issues and pursue a simple, quicker path.

“Once fill is complete, eight inches of modified sub-base will be installed, edge and median barrier will be installed, and the transition between the new roadway and existing lanes will be prepped.

“Paving operations will begin soon after. Equipment is being staged and mobilized for [the] next steps and work continues,” he said.

The temporary highway will provide three roadway lanes for travel in each direction. The highway originally had four each way.

Crews have been working 24 hours a day, rain or shine, trucking in 2,000 tons of the lightweight glass nuggets to get Pennsylvanians moving again.

“Our teams are working around the clock to get these repairs done efficiently and safely,” state Secretary of Transport Mike Carroll said.

The company supplying the glass aggregate, AeroAggregates of North America, has a production site just south of Philadelphia along the Delaware River. There, it mills glass bottles and jars diverted from landfills into a powder and heats it into a foam to produce small, lightweight nuggets that are gray and look like rocks but are as light as Styrofoam, said CEO Archie Filshill.

Each one is about an inch or inch-and-a-half wide.

The disruption will likely raise the cost of consumer goods because truckers must now travel longer routes, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. Of all traffic that uses the I-95, 8 percent are trucks, he added.

Once complete, cars and trucks can return to this temporary portion of I-95 as crews work to build another replacement bridge next to the temporary structure to reroute traffic while crews excavate the glass fill to restore the exit ramp below and rebuild the highway, officials said.

The federal government has already released $3 million in emergency funds to assist with the repairs. Biden said that “a lot more” federal funding will come to Pennsylvania “in the coming weeks.”

The most up-to-date information on available detours can be found at www.pa.gov/i95updates.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.