Road repairs under way on Sullivan Drive

If you've driven Sullivan Drive (Highway 21) through Bogalusa anytime in the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed orange markings on the curbs and the roadway.

That was in preparation for a patching project that got under way this morning, starting at the intersection of Highway 21 and Highway 10 and extended south toward Bogue Lusa Creek.

Barricades are up in the right hand lane from a point just north of the Hwy. 10/21 traffic light and the lane is closed until near the creek crossing.

"We're going in and are going to patch some rough spots," said Tommy Hemphill, Louisiana DOTD engineer in Franklinton.

"We'll start at (Highway) 10 and work south," he explained.

Along the way, any place you see orange marks around a rough spot on the roadway, it will be dug out, a new base laid and the spot patched to eliminate the damaged highway.

"It should take us three or four months to get everything fixed," Hemphill said.

Hemphill also noted that "some preliminary work" is being done in preparation for an upcoming overlay project on Highway 1075, which begins at the intersection of Avenue F and West 10th Street and continues 7.44 miles south until it intersects with La. 21.

(Published first at http://www.wpnewsblog.blogspot.com)