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Video: Here’s How I-30 Would Look After Widening

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The Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department has completed a year-long study of the proposed Interstate 30 widening project through the downtowns of Little Rock and North Little Rock.

The project has been branded the “30 Crossing” and would entail replacing the current bridge over the Arkansas River and widening to 10 lanes the stretch of I-30 from the Interstate 530 junction in southeast Little Rock to the Highway 67 junction in North Little Rock. Estimated completion of the project is early 2020.

Here’s video of how the I-30 corridor would change:

The project would include widening portions of Interstate 40 in North Little Rock as well. The study, dubbed the I-30 Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Study, found that the project would relieve traffic congestion, improve roadway safety, address structural and functional roadway and bridge deficiencies, and improve water navigation safety.

Read the full report here. More details on the project are available here.

“The study took a first look at I-30’s system capacity, safety and deficiencies within the study area,” said Ben Browning, named by AHTD as the director for the project, in a news release. “Following the PEL process has provided the opportunity to initiate early coordination with agencies, stakeholders and the public, while also providing a mechanism to make early planning-level decisions that will reduce the time needed to complete the environmental process.”

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