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Hinds Parkway
Transportation
Hinds County, Mississippi
Hinds Parkway (formerly called the Byram-Clinton Corridor) was conceived through a planning initiative by the Mississippi Development Authority as a multi-modal transportation corridor designed to enhance both economic development and energy efficiency. The entire project consists of an 18-mile, low speed multi-lane parkway style road situated between the Byram Community at I-55 in the southern portion of the Jackson Metropolitan Area, extending northwestward to the Norrell Road Interchange at I-20 in Clinton.
The design concept further calls for sidewalks, pedestrian walking trails and biking trails along with access limitations to ensure public safety and enhance levels of service. Waggoner completed the route evaluation and NEPA documentation services. The FHWA approved a FONSI for this project.
Hinds Parkway, Segment Two (pictured below) was finished ahead of schedule in August 2019 and constitutes a fully functional, 3.53-mile stand-alone roadway from Davis Road to Parks Road, part of what ultimately will be the overall Hinds Parkway.
18 Miles
The overall Parkway will consist of an 18-mile, 40-mph maximum speed, multi-lane roadway.
Project Details
Specific work efforts include identification of five alternate routes for the corridor; traffic modeling of existing and future conditions; evaluation of environmental impacts, including wetlands and floodplains, threatened and endangered species, historical and archaeological, noise, land use and farm lands, socio-economic, air and water quality, noise, hazardous waste sites; and other related issues.