JACKSON COUNTY – The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) has begun work on a comprehensive highway reconstruction project beginning at the Highway 90 interchange of Highway 63 (to the north) and Highway 611 (to the south) in Jackson County.
Tanner Construction Company was awarded the $21 million phase one project and Jackson County was awarded a $35 million Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) grant to construct the two phase interchange project.
MDOT officials said work on the project includes initial clearing and grubbing operations on the south end near Old Mobile Highway, moving northward toward Highway 90.
Along with intersection improvements, the project will involve roadway reconstruction both north and south along Highway 63 and Highway 611.
The project will include construction of a new 711 foot-long bridge which will be built along Highway 63 with two lanes northbound, a turn lane and two lanes southbound with a merge lane.
The new bridge will span existing Highway 90 and the railroad tracks to the south.
A number of roadway realignments and new traffic signals will also be included in the project.
Highway 63 will be realigned going northbound at Old Mobile Highway and will tie back to existing Highway 63 at Frederick Street.
Shortcut Road will be realigned to the north with a new signal.
New signals will be installed at Old Mobile Highway and Highway 90 at both new ramp locations and the new Shortcut Road alignment 500 feet south of Frederick Street.
The new bridge will be constructed entirely to the east of the existing Highway 90 and Highway 63/Highway 611 interchange.
The existing intersection will remain open until the bridge is fully constructed.
Traffic will then be diverted to the new bridge and the remaining ramps will be constructed.
Phase two of the project is expected to start late next year, which will expand Highway 611 to five lanes from Old Mobile Highway to the end of state maintenance at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery facility.
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