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U.S. 51 project overrun causes business interruption, but ...

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 21-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
In March 2003, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) awarded a contract to widen U.S. 51 to five lanes in the cities of Ridgeland and Madison to APAC-Mississippi Inc. Construction began in June of that year on the $14-million project that ran from just south of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Ridgeland north approximately five miles to the Madison city limits.

According to MDOT, the reconstruction project was designed to alleviate traffic congestion through the growing Madison County cities. It included widening of the existing roadbed, construction of numerous intersections, addition of traffic signals and cameras and reconstruction of the drainage system along the corridor.

But, the project soon ran into snags. According to MDOT officials, problems with "unsuitable soil foundations" at...

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