Our DOTD Leaders On The Lee Drive Widening Project

They are planning on widening Lee Dr. between Highland Rd. and Perkins Rd. But only to three lanes. In my opinion that is useless. It will help a little bit but is useless overall. If you have ever driven down Hwy. 73 in Prairieville you will understand what I am talking about. I realize that most of the yards of the people that live on Lee Dr are small but only adding a turn lane is useless and will only help the traffic flow minimally. But they are going to add bike lanes and sidewalks :banghead. If that’s what they are spending the 35,000,000 on, it would be would be cheaper to just add a turn lane leading up to the intersection’s and at Lee High School and save a lot of money. If they are going to have to spend money to move all the utilities why not at least make it a four lane with no turn lane. Installing sidewalks is useless. I very rarely see people walking on Lee Dr. to warrant putting sidewalks on each side of the road
DOTD is useless

Edited to add this is a MoveBR project and not a state project
Edit #2. My point is that if you don’t put sidewalks and bike lanes, a four lane road would not take up anymore of their yards than the three lane already planned