There are so many reasons to #DriveAlert #ArriveAliveGA on the Louisville Bypass/US 1/SR 17 near Walnut Street these days! Within a half-mile of that intersection, you can see a few different construction tasks underway - each with large vehicles and crews either in or very near the roadway. You'll definitely notice the asphalt team as they lay new pavement. Because traffic is being reduced to one lane at their work zone, pilot cars and signal crew members are on site to guide cars and trucks through safely.
Just south of the asphalt team, we have workers on large equipment packing and evening-out layers of earth that will make up the new lane. While the equipment 'mostly' stay behind the orange-and-white barrels, every now and then they have to come up on the edge of the roadside. Watch out for them, and be ready to slow down.
Just south of the bulldozers are two more teams: one is installing utility pipes, and another is continuing the extension of the new lanes, setting layers of gravel. Excavators are digging ditches and then burying the new concrete water and sewer lines. Dump trucks are going in-and-out of the roadway, pouring mountains of gravel and then heading out for more. You'll also see workers throughout the work zone, directing the large vehicles, helping to spread gravel or keeping watch over the scene for safety.
Watching these construction vehicles in action is cool (we agree!), but don't let them distract you while driving. Keep your eyes open, put your devices down, slow your speed, and we'll all go home at the end of the day safe and sound.