As construction on Vernon Street rounded Lafayette Square on Tuesday night, local first responders say they haven’t had a problem getting to West Georgia Medical Center because of the work.
Vernon Street is being resurfaced from the hospital to the square and work will continue on Commerce Avenue to Hogansville Road near the Troup County Department of Children and Family Services office.
“We haven’t had a delayed response,” said Robert Copeland, supervisor with American Medial Response, the county’s primary ambulance service.
Copeland said ambulance crews keep track of construction and know ways to get around it. If they have to be in it, construction crews are good about letting them by.
Motorists also may have been surprised to see Troup County Sheriff’s deputies providing traffic control around the construction, even though the work is being done on a city street. LaGrange Public Safety Chief Lou Dekmar said the traffic control is chosen through a bid process with the state Department of Transportation. All law enforcement agencies can bid and the county had deputies available to do that job this time around, he said.
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