That odd and dangerous intersection where Narrow Avenue meets Sodom Road has been tamed with a fresh asphalt and a new design.

Trucks from Rhode Island-based Narragansett Improvement Co. were there Friday morning putting new pavement onto the restructured junction that has been the source of numerous accidents and close calls over the years.

This list of those who welcome the changes includes Highway Surveyor Chris Gonsalves and Police Lieutenant John Bell, both of whom pitched the project to the Board of Selectmen last year.

“It’s going to be so much better, less confusing and safer, “ Mr. Gonsalves said.

Money — $101,553 — for the rebuild came from state Chapter 90 funds. Narragansett Improvement Co. was selected to do the job along with several other summertime road improvement projects in town.

As Mr. Gonsalves and Lt. Bell described it last year, the corner had at least three strikes going against it.

• Inexplicably, Narrow Avenue divides into three sections at the last minute where it meets Sodom.

• Narrow Avenue arrives at Sodom Road right in the middle of a big, nearly blind curve.

• Signs might help ease the confusion but every time the town puts them up, someone steals them.

The goal has been to transform three-pronged Narrow Avenue into a single junction with Sodom Road.

A highway engineer concluded that the intersection should be a bit north of the previous middle junction so as to arrive at a point about perpendicular to curving Sodom Road.

Several accidents, usually involving south-bound vehicles on Sodom attempting a right turn onto Narrow Ave., have happened there, Lt. Bell said. "We've tried putting signs up there but they keep disappearing."

"It is very confusing, especially without signs," Mr. Gonsalves said last year. With no signs to guide them, drivers seem to have different theories on which way to go.

He said they have put signs there repeatedly but the sign thieves are relentless. Once they put one high enough on a telephone pole section to be out of reach — they thought.

"The thief just cut the pole down with a chainsaw," Mr. Gonsalves said. He added that they probably snatch the aluminum signs for their scrap metal value — a lot of effort for not much money, he added.

The new single Narrow Ave entry also needed to be wide enough to handle a very long tractor-corn cutter and other farm vehicles that use it regularly, officials said.

Potholes and more

Narragansett Improvement Co. is also tackling other Westport road jobs.

With $100,000 worth of winter recovery funding, the work list includes a complete rebuild of Green Street, a small street off Old County Road that had already been in tough shape even before winter storm damage.

Also attacked will be potholes and damage done by frost heaves in numerous locations, Mr. Gonsalves said, among them Bridge Road, Tickle Road and others.

Also this week, Mr. Gonsalves that the gas company is installing lines along Charlotte White Road.

“That will enable us to do drainage work and completely repave the road next year,” he said.