WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Road work continues with Toyota plant on hold
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Associated Press - August 25, 2009 9:04 AM ET
BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - Infrastructure projects are continuing nearly on schedule around Toyota's Mississippi plant, but the manufacturing facility is still on hold.
Mississippi Department of Transportation officials activated the traffic light on a new frontage road Monday for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi.
The three-mile road connects Mississippi Highway 9 near the Sherman exit off U.S. Highway 78.
Bill Jamieson, an MDOT engineer, said construction was completed a few days after the Aug. 12 deadline.
It's the most recent update in a $43 million road project that started after Toyota announced in February 2007 it would build a facility near Blue Springs.
Toyota in December put the plant on hold indefinitely because of the weak economy.
Information from: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, http://nems360.com/
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