(La Porte, IN) - La Porte City Police will become more visible along Pine Lake Avenue in the coming days to protect road construction workers.

 

Most of the work on Pine Lake Ave. is occurring right now in its intersections, with the northbound side of the four-lane state highway down to a single lane.

 

Police Chief Paul Brettin said extra officers will be assigned to protect road construction workers by reducing the number of speeding vehicles through visibility and enforcement.

 

“People have to realize those workers are right there and we want to try and keep them as safe as we possibly can,” he said.

 

After work on the intersections is completed, the focus will turn to resurfacing all four lanes of what was previously a two-lane highway until it was widened roughly 20 years ago.

 

“We’ve had no complaints yet but it will come as more and more construction workers get out there,” Brettin said.

 

Northbound traffic has been backed up completely across the U.S. 35 overpass at times during the morning and afternoon rush because of the existing lane closure.

 

The road construction work is expected to be completed in early July.