Dreamed about for decades, upgrades to East Baton Rouge Parish's traffic signals are well underway, but engineers say it will be the end of 2022 before motorists can consistently expect fewer stops at red lights and manageable daily drive times.
The MOVEBR program has released an update on its synchronization of traffic signals, a project that is providing equipment upgrades, software improvements and doubling the amount of fiber optic cable connecting all 470 signals throughout East Baton Rouge Parish.
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome has announced the construction of 21 MOVEBR projects beginning in 2021. The projects will increase the capacity of, significantly enhance existing corridors, build sidewalks, and increase accessibility throughout the parish.
This year, 21 MOVEBR projects that will increase capacity, significantly enhance existing corridors, build sidewalks and increase accessibility throughout the parish will move forward to the construction phase.
Nearly two dozen MovEBR projects are expected to begin next year, including construction of a new four-lane road from Perkins Road to the Mall of Louisiana.
As city-parish officials prepare to ramp up activity on the $1.1 billion MovEBR road improvement program, they’re trying to address a problem they’ve increasingly encountered this year in bidding public works projects: a lot of small, local contractors don’t know how to correctly submit public bids.
The MOVEBR Program Management team and the City-Parish Purchasing Division invite you to attend a webinar on Thursday, November 12, at 5:00 p.m. on common errors made in the bidding process that result in disqualification.
As most drivers in Baton Rouge know, Airline Highway is a major corridor for East Baton Rouge Parish, and the MOVEBR program is hoping this new project will not only make the highway better, but also safer.
On August 4, 2020, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome broke ground on the first MOVEBR construction project, to build new sidewalks and other improvements on 72nd Avenue in North Baton Rouge. The 72nd Avenue project is one of the 15 sidewalk improvement projects that MOVEBR will undertake.