A newly announced road project in Youngsville will widen and raise a main thoroughfare for Southside High School that historically has been prone to flooding.
The South Larriviere Road project is set to start construction with a 12-month timeline to completion. The road, once considered to be part of rural Youngsville, has become widely used by Southside High School students and their parents since the school’s construction.
The road will be widened to 24 feet from its current 18 feet and will be flanked by a sidewalk. The road will also be raised anywhere from one to three feet to fall flat with a newly constructed small bridge that crosses a flood channel…