Supervisor says $10.2M will jump-start construction of road
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (AP) – Jackson County supervisor Troy Ross says Gov. Phil Bryant’s pledge of $10.2 million in BP oil spill money to help build a connector road between Sangani Boulevard and Jackson County will “dramatically” accelerate the project.
Ross tells the Mississippi Press that plans call for construction to begin before the end of the year.
Bryant made the pledge during a meeting in Biloxi last month.
The project will link commercial developments in St. Martin area of Jackson County with D’Iberville in Harrison County.
Ross says the estimated cost to finish the connector project is $21 million dollars. Ross says right of way has already been purchased, and the money will at least get the project started. He says the road could be finished by 2018.
