CROWN POINT | More details about how the state's transportation department plans to decongest Broadway will be released at the upcoming Aug. 4 Crown Point City Council meeting, local officials said Wednesday.

"We're on the right track," said state Rep. Shelli VanDenburgh, D-Crown Point, Wednesday afternoon as she drove back to Crown Point after a morning meeting in Indianapolis with Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner Karl Browning, Mayor David Uran and other INDOT and city officials.

Concerned about the flow of traffic and safety on Broadway between 93rd and 109th streets, VanDenburgh and Uran began talks last year regarding how to improve the traffic on the road before its 2012 scheduled expansion by INDOT.

Wednesday's meeting was a follow-up to a May meeting in which the group decided to focus on four intersections along Broadway that could be redesigned to help solve the congestion indefinitely instead of widening the road.

VanDenburgh said the earliest INDOT would be able to start the project would be July of next year because of right-of-way acquisitions.

Between the meeting and the Aug. 4 presentation, the city will be locating all of the utilities are along Broadway to expedite the construction process, officials said.

INDOT budgeted $8.2 million for the 2012 expansion that could be put toward fixing the intersections.