BATON ROUGE — A nearly $12 million project is planned for Old Hammond Highway, aimed at reducing congestion and improving safety along one of the area’s most heavily traveled corridors.
The project will be broken up into phases. The first two phases start in May and involve widening Old Hammond Highway from Millerville to O’Neal Lane, as well as a section of Flannery Road between Old Hammond and Goodwood.
The work will widen the roadway from two lanes to four, fill in ditches, add sidewalks and improve pedestrian access across the corridor. It also includes replacing the bridge at South Flannery and expanding it to support more pedestrians with added sidewalk space…