 As the first day of school in Pike County approaches crews working on the Millard Curve project have turned their attention to creating and paving new entrances to Millard Middle School. Although the main focus of the project was improving the safety of motorists traveling around the curve transportation cabinet officials say they also wanted to make sure they improve the entrances to the school. What you see today is part of the paving going into the new entrances to the school. What looks like a road widening area part of this will be a turn lane. You'll be able to turn in and pull in without stopping any traffic behind you. And school officials say the new entrances will make dropping off and picking up students a much safer process. It's going to improve pulling into the school. We'll have turn lanes, there'll be a middle lane, traffic flow, the actual traffic gets to flow through and as parents are pulling in, bus is pulling in, parking lot is going to be redone for the parent to drop off and pick up so the flow of the parents pulling in and out will be improved as well as the bus safety. And probably the ones most happy about the increased space being created are the bus drivers. Pulling out I mean it's gonna be a big change because with the oncoming traffic where the buses swing across the actual yellow line pulling out by having the entrance lanes and stuff it's going to help out a lot. And although the area still looks pretty rough school officials say by the August 11th start of school things will look much better. As school's starting they'll have the merge lanes the turn lanes and they'll have those constructed and paved. Reporting in Millard for EKB News I'm Shannon Deskins.