On Monday, Jan. 25 at 5:30 p.m., workers plan to reopen South Harrell’s Ferry Road between Jones Creek Road and Manchester Drive after a two-week temporary closure as part of a Green Light Plan project to widen the roadway.

The closure was necessary to relocate a pipeline required to four-lane that stretch of South Harrell’s Ferry Road.  The roadway reopens on time and within the originally projected two-week timeframe.

Work began last September to widen that stretch of South Harrell’s Ferry Road as part of the Green Light Plan to relieve congestion on major traffic arteries in East Baton Rouge Parish.  The project will add two additional through lanes, sidewalks and a raised median to South Harrell’s Ferry Road from a point 1,100-feet east of Millerville Road to O’Neal Lane.  The project also calls for a new intersection at Jones Creek Road.

The South Harrell’s Ferry Segment 2 widening project will require a new drainage crossing and raised roadway at the Knox Branch crossing between Jones Creek Road and O’Neal Lane.  A future road closure will be scheduled to install an embankment and a new bridge at Knox Branch.

Other Green Light Plan projects are now under construction to widen Jones Creek Road from South Harrell’s Ferry Road to Coursey Boulevard, and South Harrell’s Ferry Road from Millerville Road to South Sherwood Forest Boulevard.