JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 3 -- The Mississippi Department of Transportation issued the following news release:
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) has announced updates on several construction and maintenance projects in northeast Mississippi.
Capacity project on State Route 15 in Tippah County
A massive project to construct 10.5 miles of new four-lane alignment of State Route 15 from Union County to Ripley and a State Route 2 connector in Blue Mountain is progressing in Tippah County.
Earthwork operations and bridge construction continues throughout the project. The new alignment of SR 2 is being paved, and traffic was recently swapped to the detour along Cotton Gin Rd. The detour bridge for County Road 700 is currently be...