About this project
Hwy 169 Belle Plaine to Blakeley Township project location map.
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Crews will make safety improvements to Hwy 169 from Hwy 25 in Belle Plaine to Hwy 19 in Blakeley Township. The project will modify certain intersections and install a cable median barrier to improve the safety of the corridor.
Summary of work
- Install cable median barrier in center median
- Cable median barriers help prevent the most serious and fatal head-on crossover crashes, reducing crossover head-on crashes by up to 95%
- Construct Reduced Conflict Intersections (RCI) and center medians to reduce high risk cross-movements and left turns onto Hwy 169
- RCIs prevent the most serious and fatal right-angle crashes by reducing the high-risk crossing movements and left turns onto Hwy 169 from a local road or driveway, reducing serious and fatal crashes by 70% and overall crashes by 42%
- Removal of redundant center medians
- Drainage improvements