Special to The Mississippi Link
JACKSON — Mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. recently announced the Woodrow Wilson Overlay Project. The $1.46 million project will pave a section of Woodrow Wilson from the VA Hospital to Mill Street.
The Woodrow Wilson Overlay Project is part of the Intermodal Connector Improvement Program. The Intermodal Connector Improvement Program provides funds to locally maintained streets designated by the Federal Highway Administration that connect multimodal facilities such as ports, bus facilities, rail facilities, and certain air facilities to roads on the National Highway System. Through this program, MDOT provided 80% of the funding and 20% was matched by the City.
“This is an important infrastructure project for the city of Jackson and it will greatly improve the drive for thousands of people using Woodrow Wilson every day who come to our world-class medical center, UMC, and so many other vital businesses along the thoroughfare,” said Mayor Johnson.
The project will take 60 working days to complete and work will be completed mostly overnight and during the weekends. The project does have limits on the times of the lane closures:
• No lane closures on Labor Day weekend (including the Friday before)
• No lane closures Monday through Friday between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.
• No lane closures on Friday between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. if there is a game at Newell Field
• No lane closures on JSU game days at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
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