LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – It’s been nearly two years in the making and medians are now coming up on a four-mile stretch of Dixie Highway.
Those medians are placed in a stretch of Dixie Highway near Greenwood Road to Crums Lane.
It’s an effort to stop left turns across multiple lanes of traffic in the middle of a block.
Left turns are one of the most dangerous maneuvers drivers make daily.
The group behind the Dixie Highway Project is giving drivers safer options to get where they need to go without risking their or someone else’s life.
From new sidewalks to crosswalks to bus stops and now medians, they are trying urge people to be more cautions while also preventing continuous casualties.
“Dixie Highway is one of the most dangerous highways in Louisville and we want to change that,” spokesperson Beverly Bartlett said. “If you travel Dixie Highway, unfortunately, you’ll see a lot of dangerous things happening – people crossing in the middle of the block, people turning left in the middle of the block. The new Dixie Highway Project will cut down on a lot of that.”
In the southwest part of the county, Bartlett says that stretch where the new medians are being placed, is the busiest sections.
Once construction is finished, drivers won’t have another option but to turn at the designated areas.
The group was hoping the entire project would be completed by 2019 and even with some major rainfall, they are expecting most of it to be done by December.
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