re: Road Construction in Prattville, AL Thunderdome

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What road are the two of you arguing about?

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Old Farm Lane. PCA is it. Connects Cobbs Ford and 14. It's between Longhorn and O'Charlies. Used to be 2 lane, 10' lanes, vertical curves, very little clear zone, a ~95 degree curve with a very small radius, no paved shoulder, shoulder drop offs due to erosion and people running off the road, and traffic was increasing with PCA growing.

Around 2014 they made it 4 lanes, with a 12' inside lane, 14' outside lane with bicycle sharrows, added a median, added a sidewalk on the wast side, added turn lanes, improved drainage, sight distance, flattened out the dangerous curve.

It eliminated almost all crashes between Lowe's and 14. I couldn't find any injury crashes since the completion of the project.