Five curvy roadways in Lafayette Parish, identified as getting a significant selection of highway- departure crashes, will acquire skid-resistant floor treatment options.
The Acadiana Planning Commission/MPO and Lafayette Consolidated Authorities Targeted visitors, Roads, and Bridges staffs collaborated to safe cash for the following curvy roadways:
- Congress Street at Lagneaux Highway (two curve locations amongst Bopamo Lane and Le Violon Highway
- Denais Road (between Bourque Highway and Leblanc Highway)
- Martin Luther King Generate (among Hollywood Generate and Benoit Falgout Push)
- Vincent Street (among Boulder Creek Parkway and Verot University Road)
- Bonin Highway (amongst Tolson Street and W Pinhook Road)
Funded by the Federal Freeway Administration (FHWA) and managed by the Louisiana Department of Transportation, roadways will receive what is termed Substantial Friction Surface Treatment method (HFST), employed to provide pavement friction to increase over-all road traction on moist or dry surfaces and considerably decrease crashes, injuries and fatalities.
LCG says that a an FHWA report demonstrates this kind of treatment is approximated to minimize moist crashes by 83 per cent and total crashes by 57 p.c.
The venture price is $316,490.50.
Road operate is expected to start out sometime in Oct and is should really just take a person year to be completed, temperature permitting.
