State wildlife, layout among roads’ hurdles
$1.8 billion highway project faces challenges in Arkansas
Posted: January 21, 2013 at 12:44 a.m.
The Interstate 30 and Interstate 40 interchange is seen Wednesday looking south from North Little Rock toward Little Rock. One of the plans in the works at the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department is to widen I-30 from the I-40 interchange to the I-30 and I-530 interchange.
The red-cockaded woodpecker, the Arkansas fatmucket mussel, the Ozark cavefish and the gray bat — all endangered or threatened species — loom as challenges to the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department as it prepares the projects planned under the state’s new $1.8 billion road construction program voters endorsed when they passed a temporary half-percent sales tax in November.
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Arkansas, Pages 9 on 01/21/2013
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