It will help more evenly distribute the east-west traffic in that area. |
Left-turn signals not only can differ from county to county, they often differ within a county. |
The $64,000 question: nobody knows where the rest of the funding is going to come from. |
This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and the federal funds were approved about three or four years ago, but there have been delays over the years. |
Those lanes will be constructed during the 2006 construction season. Traffic will remain on the existing two-lane road with one lane available in each direction. Then in 2007, we'll build two new lanes east of the existing lanes. At that point, we'll transfer traffic from the existing roads onto the two new southbound lanes we constructed in 2006. |