A Message from the Mayor-President

MOVEBR By the Numbers – Getting East Baton Rouge Parish Moving!

Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome

MOVEBR projects are well underway this quarter and in keeping with our commitment to provide transparency with accountability, I want to give you a brief progress report on the 72 projects in the program, all approved by the people of East Baton Rouge Parish. 

As of October 1, 2020, we have 26 projects in planning, 22 in engineering procurement, 18 in design and 3 in construction. In addition, you can read below about the progress we are making to synchronize all traffic signals in East Baton Rouge Parish, starting with some of our major corridors. We have already heard from drivers who have noticed the improvement in traffic flow on the Florida Boulevard corridor, and there is more relief on the way. Yes, we are finally getting our traffic moving. 

I am especially pleased to report that the MOVEBR program has spent over $26 million – almost 95% of our total spend – with local companies which helps keep our East Baton Rouge Parish economy strong. Of that amount, we are currently ahead of our target for investing in local small businesses with 26% participation by minority, woman, and veteran-owned companies. 

Projects that will increase capacity on our roadways by building 119 new lane miles have moved into the planning and design phases with construction beginning very soon. As of October 1, 52.1% of those projects are in the planning phase and 47.9% are in design. Of the 126 miles of enhanced roadway that will be completed in the MOVEBR program, 36.4% are in the planning phase, 61.5% are in design and construction has begun.

We are posting our key performance indicators, which helps track, monitor and evaluate our work, on the MOVEBR homepage to share our progress with you. As always, we encourage you to follow the MOVEBR program on Facebook and Twitter for updates or through the Contact Us form on our website. If you have a small business that could do work on these projects, sign up to learn more about opportunities to participate.