BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - What changes EBR Transportation officials are making to better support surface streets for the Pecue/I-10 Interchange.

As DOTD crews continue working on the final phase of the Pecue Lane/I-10 interchange project, EBR officials are making progress on how they’ll handle the extra traffic on the surface streets.

“To try and make sure people can get through and do it in a timely fashion,” said Fred Raiford, Director of Transportation and Drainage for EBR.

Raiford said they’ve been planning on widening Pecue, improving drainage, and even monitoring traffic during peak times to sync up new lights.

“Those factors were all looked at and are being looked at in regard to estimated volume of traffic that’s going to be there, not only today but what’s going to be there in

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