Event Celebrates Completion Of US Route 13/Route 404 Project

Bridgeville -- Secretary Carolann Wicks of the Department of Transportation and William Jefferson, President of Commissioners for the Town of Bridgeville joined together today to celebrate the official completion of the US Route 13/Route 404 Intersection Realignment and Bridgeville Service Roads Project. This project addressed safety and traffic flow problems which previously existed at this major intersection on the US Route 13 corridor.

Mumford and Miller Concrete, Inc. completed the work on the $15 million project approximately $1.2 million under budget.

Secretary Wicks states, "I'm thankful for the opportunity to work with the Town of Bridgeville on these improvements in support of the economic development growth of this area."

Secretary Wicks also indicated that this location was identified as a high-accident area in both 1998 and 2001, since there were 83 accidents over a five year period (1994-1999). Many of the accidents occurred because of the skewed angles that previously existed as Delaware Route 404 intersected with US Route 13.

The project realigned Route 404 to intersect US Route 13 at a perpendicular angle. Additional lanes through the intersection were also included to improve both traffic flow and safety.

The project was also identified as being one of the sites under the Corridor Capacity Preservation Program. The program established in 1996 preserves the regional function of selected corridors in Delaware. The program's approach on US Route 13 is to improve local streets, construct service roads and limit new access in rural areas along the corridor. In doing so, the function of US Route 13 can be restored to one of regional nature and new/improved local roadways would accommodate local traffic.

A secondary purpose of the improvement project is to accommodate additional traffic generated by ongoing and proposed developments along US Route 13.
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