The four-laning of U.S. Hwy. 431 north of Eufaula should be completed within five years. (...) That's what Joe McInnes, director of the Alabama Department of Transportation, told Monica Lucas during a visit to her Barbour County home on Thursday. (...) McInnes made good on a promise to visit Lucas. Her daughter, Angel, was killed in an accident on the deadly stretch of U.S. 431 north of Eufaula in 2000. Lucas pleaded with McInnes to finish the job on U.S. 431. Some 16 miles of two-lane road are yet to be completed between Eufaula and the recently opened Seale bypass. McInnes said U.S. 431 remains a priority with the DOT. "We are accelerating the work on 431," McInnes told Lucas. "I know it's important to you and others who have lost loved ones. We're going to work feverishly to get it done."
Experts estimate that the four-laning will be complete in four to five and half years.
