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Completion Set for Winter '07

By Keith Burton GCN 8/22/07

Contractors have finally started work on new street lights to relight U.S. 90 in Gulfport. The city installed signs along the busy beach highway Tuesday and today a work crew was busy digging a trench along the road near the city line of Biloxi and DeBuys Road.

Gulfport Mayor Brent Warr has long promised that his city will have decorative lights and ploes to add character and distinction to Gulfport. That is what is being installed, though GCN has not been able to determine what the poles and lights will look like, or whether they were ordered from China. Warr took a trip to the Far East earlier this year with part of the mission to examine street lights manufactured in that country.

A delay surfaced in the project several months ago when the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) told the city that the poles and lights would have to be approved by the Federal Highway Administration to meet federal highway standards for wind resistance, brightness and breakaway in case of accidents.

The work on the lights is costing the city $2.1 million dollars. The project will place lights from DeBuys Road to Lewis Avenue near the Long Beach city limits. The contractor for the project is B&B Electrical & Utility Contractors, Inc.

Federal disaster recovery funds for such projects are typically approved for only replacement costs, not enhancements, GCN was told by MDOT's David Sayfarth.

Biloxi has long had most of its lights along U.S. 90 replaced since the hurricane. It used the same "cobra-style" lights that were used prior to the storm. If Gulfport had such lights, it could have long had the roadway lit at night. Even so, motorists and residents will see the roadway lit by the end of this year.