Better MS Report

The Mississippi Press: The 38 stylized lights recently installed in the median of U.S. 90 from Beasley to Johnston Road must be removed because the lighting does not meet highway department standards, officials said. The lights were approved by the Mississippi Department of Transportation, but miscalculations in the installation caused them to fall below requirements, [...]

The Associated Press: A proposal to build a hurricane evacuation highway on the Mississippi Coast has been shelved because of a lack of funding, a transportation official says. Southern District Transportation Commissioner Wayne Brown told the Sun Herald on Friday that recent collections of fuel taxes have not raised enough money to proceed with the [...]

Hall featured on Episode 6 of ‘Better Mississippi Report Podcast’ From the Better Mississippi Report: JACKSON (Monday, Aug. 16, 2010) – Mississippi Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall says state leaders likely will have to find new money to fund highways and highway maintenance – including the possibility of toll roads and raising the state’s gasoline tax. [...]

From The Commercial Dispatch: At a public hearing Thursday at the Trotter Convention Center, area residents will have an opportunity to ask questions of Mississippi Department of Transportation representatives and make comments on a U.S. Highway 45 bypass project. During the hearing, which will be held from 4-7 p.m., residents will have an opportunity to [...]

From The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: Mississippi Department of Transportation engineers will start from scratch in the 12-year quest to improve safety and traffic flow at the Highway 6/Jackson Avenue intersection in Oxford. The city’s aldermen and mayor traveled to Batesville last week to discuss options with MDOT officials, who have recently said that with [...]

From The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: Mississippi Department of Transportation officials want the city of Oxford to declare a six-month moratorium on development near the intersection of State Highway 6 and Jackson Avenue. For a decade, MDOT and Oxford have wanted to replace the intersection that connects the two major traffic arteries. So far, though, [...]

From WLBT-TV, Jackson:22-year-old army veteran Brandon Yancey died Thursday on Interstate 55 at the Gallman Exit. He hit uneven pavement on his motorcycle. The asphalt is a few inches higher in the right-hand lane. We’re told someone moved one of the barriers, and that may have contributed to the fatal wreck. Mississippi ranks in the [...]

From The Clarion-Ledger: Beverly Lawrence’s friends tell her that she and husband Tim are “spoiled.” “We complain so much about the traffic – it’s terrible,” Beverly Lawrence said. “When we moved to Flowood several years ago, there was nothing on Lakeland Drive. It was like living in the country.” Now, much of the city has [...]

From The Clarion-Ledger: Brian Jones knows as well as anyone how reckless Mississippi drivers can be. Four years ago, the road construction worker stood inside a blocked-off lane of U.S. 80 in Clinton surveying the site when a vehicle plowed into his back, dragged him 50 feet and slammed his body into an SUV. Six [...]