‘It’s been a headache’: Essen Lane business owners more than ready for widening project to end

With the Essen Lane widening project just a month away from completion, perhaps the only people more excited than motorists for the construction to end are those who operate businesses along the congested stretch of Essen between Perkins Road and Interstate 10. “It’s been terrible,” says Justin Alford, whose family owns the Benny’s Car Wash on Essen.