All construction and repair work on Mississippi interstate and four-lane highways will come to a halt over Thanksgiving weekend.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation is suspending all highway work from 5 p.m. Wednesday until 6 a.m. Monday in anticipation of increased holiday travel.

Melinda McGrath, MDOT’s executive director, said some lanes will remain closed to protect motorists, and drivers should still slow down when approaching and traveling through work zones.

“MDOT wants to make travel safe and convenient for the public this holiday weekend,” McGrath said in a statement. “While our construction crews won’t be working, we will be putting additional effort into monitoring the state’s highways to make sure everyone is able to enjoy the holiday weekend safely.”

In the meantime, MDOT said it would be monitoring state highways via its Traffic Management Center, which uses traffic cameras, congestion analysis technology, radar and temperature sensors to ensure driver safety and mobility.

Close window X

Republish this article

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Unless otherwise noted, you can republish most of Mississippi Today’s stories for free under a Creative Commons license. For digital publications:

• Look for the "Republish This Story" button underneath each story. To republish online, simply click the button, copy the html code and paste into your Content Management System (CMS).
• Editorial cartoons and photo essays are not included under the Creative Commons license and therefore do not have the "Republish This Story" button option. To learn more about our cartoon syndication services, click here.
• You can’t edit our stories, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style.
• You can’t sell or syndicate our stories.
• Any web site our stories appear on must include a contact for your organization.
• If you share our stories on social media, please tag us in your posts using @MSTODAYnews on Facebook and @MSTODAYnews on Twitter.

For print publications:

• You have to credit Mississippi Today. We prefer “Author Name, Mississippi Today” in the byline. If you’re not able to add the byline, please include a line at the top of the story that reads: “This story was originally published by Mississippi Today” and include our website, mississippitoday.org.
• You can’t edit our stories, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style.
• You cannot republish our editorial cartoons, photographs, illustrations or graphics without specific permission (contact our managing editor Michael Guidry for more information). To learn more about our cartoon syndication services, click here.
• Our stories may appear on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories.
• You can’t sell or syndicate our stories.
• You can only publish select stories individually — not as a collection.
• Any web site our stories appear on must include a contact for your organization.
• If you share our stories on social media, please tag us in your posts using @MSTODAYnews on Facebook and @MSTODAYnews on Twitter.

If you have any other questions, contact Audience Development Director Lauchlin Fields.

State road work suspended over holiday weekend

by Kendra Ablaza, Mississippi Today
November 22, 2017

<h1>State road work suspended over holiday weekend</h1> <p class="byline">by Kendra Ablaza, Mississippi Today <br />November 22, 2017</p> <p>All construction and repair work on Mississippi interstate and four-lane highways will come to a halt over Thanksgiving weekend.</p> <p>The Mississippi Department of Transportation is suspending all highway work from 5 p.m. Wednesday until 6 a.m. Monday in anticipation of increased holiday travel.</p> <p>Melinda McGrath, MDOT’s executive director, said some lanes will remain closed to protect motorists, and drivers should still slow down when approaching and traveling through work zones.</p> <p>“MDOT wants to make travel safe and convenient for the public this holiday weekend,” McGrath said in a statement. “While our construction crews won’t be working, we will be putting additional effort into monitoring the state’s highways to make sure everyone is able to enjoy the holiday weekend safely.”</p> <p>In the meantime, MDOT said it would be monitoring state highways via its Traffic Management Center, which uses traffic cameras, congestion analysis technology, radar and temperature sensors to ensure driver safety and mobility.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org/2017/11/22/state-road-work-suspended-over-holiday-weekend/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org&quot;&gt;Mississippi Today&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.&lt;img src=&quot;https://cdn.mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/06074517/MT_icon-logo-favicon-1-200x200.png&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=111613&amp;amp;ga4=G-VSX4B701MS&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://mississippitoday.org/2017/11/22/state-road-work-suspended-over-holiday-weekend/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/mississippitoday.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

1