Propose Highway Project Would Relocate Some Businesses, Homes
Arkansas Department of Transportation has set a meeting to discuss plans to widen U.S. 82 between Hamburg and Montrose.
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Arkansas Department of Transportation has set a meeting to discuss plans to widen U.S. 82 between Hamburg and Montrose.
The Olmsted Conservancy questions the DOT's rational for the $1B cap and tunnel plan, calling the project "ill-informed" and "short-sighted."
The agency's preferred design would result in less land seized and fewer people pushed out than a competing proposal, but it would still expropriate almost 42 acres and displace 107 homes and businesses.
The I-205 Tolling Project can move forward now that Metro has approved the next step for planning and an environmental assessment.