Mr. Mahatma: When is ARDOT going to start on the next phase of widening Cantrell Road from Taylor Loop to where they left off below Pleasant Ridge? The congestion out here is terrible, both ways, all the time. -- Natural Steps

Dear Steps: Yours is a high-traffic question because Arkansas 10 in west Little Rock is a high-traffic highway.

We asked the Arkansas Department of Transportation for some information, both historical for perspective and forward for anticipation..

ARDOT went into the way-back machine for the following.

Two bridges were replaced and widened over Taylor Loop Creek and Ison Creek for approximately$624,000. The work was completed in August 1985.

A $3.5 million project to widen 3.0 miles of Cantrell Road to five........

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