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June 13, 2005 Volume 29, Issue 36 |
Five Points reconstruction program under way
Heavy equipment crews worked recently on a new connector road that will link Bully and Stone boulevards.
Construction now under way will change the look of the Five Points intersection near central campus.
During construction, Creelman Street will become a two-way street from the Highway 12 bypass west of campus to President’s Circle around Allen Hall. Traffic will be unimpeded along this entire length—from the traffic light at the intersection of Creelman and Highway 12 to the stop sign at President’s Circle—eliminating the need to negotiate “Malfunction Junction” at Five Points.
When construction is finished, southbound traffic on Bost Extension Drive, southbound traffic on B.S. Hood Drive, and northbound traffic on Stone Boulevard—all of which currently feed into “Malfunction Junction”—will come to stop signs at Creelman Street and yield to traffic on Creelman.
Schedule of summer street closings
During construction this summer, several sections of streets that feed into the Five Points intersection were to be closed by today (June 13) and will remain closed through the summer or permanently.
• Eastbound traffic on Bully Boulevard (from Starkville toward campus) will end at the intersections with Robert L. Jones Circle (sorority row) and Clyde Q. Sheely Circle (fraternity row). Traffic must turn south onto Jones Circle or north onto Sheely Circle. When construction is complete in the fall, Bully Boulevard will extend eastward to the parking lots at Hill Poultry Science Building and the Newell-Grissom Building, ending there.
• The short connector street between Bost Drive and Creelman Street currently is closed, but is scheduled to reopen on July 8.
• The section of West Lee Boulevard from B.S. Hood Drive, just west of the football stadium, to Bost Extension now is closed and will be removed permanently.
• The section of B.S. Hood from the stadium to the intersection of Stone Boulevard and Creelman Street was to have been closed June 8 and will be removed permanently.
• The section of West Lee Boulevard from the M-Club service drive to B.S. Hood Drive will be closed permanently on June 13. This section of street will be removed in December.
• Bully Boulevard between the Newell-Grissom Building parking lot and Five Points was to be closed today and will be removed permanently.
• The street on the west side of the Amphitheater, was to be converted from one-way to two-way traffic starting today for the duration of the construction work on Bully Boulevard, which is scheduled to be completed by Aug. 1.
• The section of Bully Boulevard between the intersection with Robert L. Jones Circle/ Clyde Q. Sheely Circle and entrance to Hill Poultry Science Building was to be closed today until the completion of construction on Aug. 1.
Phase II construction
A second phase of construction will begin in summer 2006.
For updates, access http://www.msstate.edu and type “parking” into the search engine.