Attention Amador commuters: after weeks of announcing and retracting statements that the I-5 freeway will reopen, the completion of construction has now been made official. A stretch of Interstate 5 that runs through downtown Sacramento has reopened after nearly two months of road construction. The project was just a few days late, despite delays prompted by high temperatures that slowed resurfacing work and pavement that was thicker than expected in some stretches. Sections of the freeway that are used by more than 200,000 vehicles each day were closed for 10-day intervals since early June. The $40 million project was needed to fix a section of the freeway known as "the boat," which sits below the level of the Sacramento River and suffered drainage problems.