Cypress street is actually US 80 and is a State Road. The police Jury has no control, nor, unfortunately do we have the power to place lights on Cypress. I have tried for the past 3 years to get a light at Vancil, as had Mike Walsworth as representative and Frank Hoffman as representative, I have also discussed Avant with DOTD as well, because there have been several accidents there. DOTD has steadily refused to even discuss placing lights at either location. They did conduct an updated traffic study of the Vancil intersection 2 years ago at my request. The study came back showing that the traffic issues really only occurred in the morning hours when people were leaving for work and for school at WestRidge and suggested that we put a turn lane on Vancil headed east. to solve that problem. We are in the very early planning stages for something like that but it will likely be several years before we can actually get funding in place and the project underway.

I'm very sorry I can't be of help in this particular matter, but we just can't do anything on the State roads

Once the turn lane at Vancil Road happens, hopefully traffic heading toward this area due to businesses and the school will have increased enough to raise concerns higher. I appreciate what you're doing to make our roads safe, sir, thank you so much.

So, basically, has nothing been done for this?

Hi! My name is Wayne M. Picnot I've have read your information on the problem issue here and I will make sure that this will be taken care of. Thanks for posting!

That would be wonderful, Mr. Picnot. Thank you for your recognition!

I just called Louisiana Department of Transportation to let them know what's going on. I told the lady to let the right department know what's going on and to send some one out to take care of this issue. They said thank you for calling bye bye. I asked them to please send some one out on this issue to be taken care of please. Thanks!

The traffic light and whatever issues were going on now for this complaint should be fixed now. I'll go ahead and close it out.

Sir, I'm afraid I don't understand. Does that mean that they are going to set up a traffic light at this location? I don't believe that an issue is handled until, well, it's actually dealt with. Just informing the Department of Transportation that there is an issue, well... I'm afraid I don't understand how this issue can be closed without concrete steps actually having been taken to resolve it.

Oh I'm so sorry I'll go ahead and reopen it. I'll make sure it don't get closed out until the job is done.

Thank you for understanding, Mr. Picnot.

Okay This issue should of been fixed by now. If you are still having a problem please call the city, state or parish back to check on what's going on and get it resolved. Thanks!

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Hey Adela B. I printed out your complaint from the seeclickfix.com website. I scanned it and uploaded it to my computer with my printer all in one. I emailed Louisiana Department of Transportation and attached your complaint in the file attachment link with the email and sent a note with the uploaded file attachments in the email to the LA DOTD branch office location in that area for them to take a look at it Hopefully they got it and look into the situation I have not heard back from them. But the lady said on the phone before the email when I called that she said some of those road belong to the parish and some belong to the state. Hopefully they'll get to it as soon as possible. She said that they go out and do a system technique that they count the number of issues like speeding or accidents in the area and take it from there to see if that location does need a traffic light. All I can say for now is be carefull to everyone.

Any progress with that traffic light Adela B.

None that I have seen, Wayne Picot. I haven't heard anything about any discussions being held or anything, but I have heard about a few more car accidents to have occurred at that intersection this year. I'm afraid that I live out of state while my dependents continue to stay in that neighborhood, so I hate that I haven't been able to be more active about this.

Hi! I have been looking into the traffic issue and possibly having traffic lights installed now I'm kinda confused which intersection corners do you want traffic lights installed. I just want the names of the two main corner intersection streets that are the most at risk of accident issues.

The city and or parish did an evaluation in this area and there saying that there is no need to have traffic lights installed in this area. Only thing is just be more careful watch where you going. Nothing seems to be getting done so I'll go ahead and close it since it has been open for a while now. I'm sorry to disapoint you.