The Causeway circle on Long Beach Island as well as Route 72 west between Sixth and Seventh streets in Ship Bottom are closed to traffic nightly between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. for road work, according to borough police. The nightly closures began April 7 and detour traffic leaving the Island, from the north and south, via Fifth Street to Shore Road, which puts motorists back on Route 72 west at the Causeway.

The work is part of a larger infrastructure project that must be completed before the state Department of…