Perkins Road Construction Update

East Baton Rouge Parish

December 8, 2009

You can now follow the Perkins Road Widening Project on Facebook. Once you open a Facebook account, you can access project information by entering “Perkins Road Widening Project” into the search field.

Baton Rouge traffic is now on Twitter! To get up-to-date traffic reports, check out this link.

For statewide traffic and road conditions, visit our 511 page. You can also get traffic updates by dialing 511 from your phone.

Bluebonnet Boulevard to Essen Lane

Crews are completing concrete operations (sidewalk and driveways) between Bluebonnet and Essen.  There are also crews working on electrical signals throughout the project as well. Some of this work is requiring lane closures during the day.

Dawson Creek Bridge: The major construction is complete with a few remaining minor tasks to finish up. 

Siegen Lane to Essen Lane

Temporary striping will be replaced with permanent striping near the end of the project in December and January. At this time the final seeding, dress-up and final clean-up will take place along the entire project area.

All above-mentioned work schedules are subject to change due to adverse weather. 

For additional questions or comments, contact DOTD’s Customer Service Center at 1-877-4LA-DOTD (1-877-452-3683) or e-mail customerservice@dotd.la.gov. The center is open 7 a.m. – 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Additionally, at your convenience, please let us know how we are doing by filling out our customer service survey below. Again, we thank you for your feedback and patience during this construction.

State Project No. .................................................................................. 258-01-0030

Parish............................................................................................... East Baton Rouge

Contractor.......................................................................... James Construction Group     

Contract Amount........................................................................................ $27 million

Project Start Date............................................................................... January 9, 2007     

Anticipated Completion Date................................................................... January 2010

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Customer Service Survey