Del. DOT Breaks Ground on Millsboro Bypass
State Leaders and Delaware Department of Transportation broke ground Friday morning for the Millsboro Bypass to help reduce traffic. The goal of this project is to improve the traffic issues that we are seeing here with the increase in population and growth that’s occurring but then also to improve the safety with the new grate separated interchange that will be built at 113 and with the bypass to allow trucks with an alternative route.
Del. DOT Secretary Nicole Majeski says Millsboro is one of the fastest growing areas, not just in Sussex County, but also in the entire state. This project includes a 2 lane connector road between US 113 and State route 24 north to improve safety, and reduce congestion through the Town of Millsboro.
Senator Tom Carper came to the event and was glad to see the Delaware Bypass Project finally break ground after so many years. He believes This project would be monumental in helping the community with its traffic issues.
“We have too many people who were injured or died – a lot of them are pedestrians in the state and we can do better than that,”Carper said. “So in addition to making sure we do good things for our economy with our ability to move good of services in our state, this project does that in spades. 22:36:19 The other thing that this project does is going to save lives.”
Representative Briggs King says with the year round traffic from people commuting to work and added beach traffic in the summer, the bypass should help reduce congestion in Millsboro. She says she has felt the pain of the local people many times trying to get into and around Millsboro.
“With the population growing that we have we know that we need better transit opportunities because it’s not just a matter of safety but also time,” Sen. Briggs King said.
Governor John Carney discussed the possibility of increasing law enforcement’s regulation of speed on the highways. He discussed how traffic safety is one of the most important issues in Delaware right now.
“We are going to ramp that up, slow people down, get them focused on the road and making sure that they arrive safely at there destination and everyone else does along the way,” Carney said. “Part of that is in the infrastructure and how you build it and I know these considerations are in this project.”
Jack Fiechtner
47ABC WMDT
Reporter/Producer
