The following are highlights from this week at the N.C. Department of Transportation. The stories below are also featured in NCDOT Now, the department’s weekly newscast. Introduce a Girl to Engineering As North Carolina’s transportation needs continue to increase, so does the need for more qualified and skilled engineers who can help ensure our state keeps moving forward. Women make up just 12 percent of engineers in the United States. Seeing this gap, the department partnered with Women’s Transportation Seminars-Raleigh to …
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Upcoming Closure and Traffic Shifts for I-85
Work on the Interstate 85 improvement project in Vance and Warren counties is requiring a series of traffic shifts and closures this coming week. On Monday, May 7, I-85 northbound traffic will shift on a median crossover just north of U.S. 1. Traffic will be in a one-lane pattern in each direction until the northbound traffic crosses back over to the original northbound lanes near Manson Road. This last shift will allow crews to build the final northbound section of I-85, …
Roadway Improvements Coming in Franklin, Granville, Warren and Vance Counties
More than 88 miles of state roads in Franklin, Warren, Granville and Vance counties will be getting new asphalt, thanks to a pair of contracts awarded by the N.C. Department of Transportation. Both contracts call for milling and resurfacing the roads, as well as shoulder reconstruction work. In Franklin County, a $5.7 million contract went to Fred Smith Company of Raleigh for improvements covering 13 miles of N.C. 56 between U.S. 401 and the Nash County line, as well as …
New Funding Source Means Roadway Upgrades in Wake, Durham and Northern Counties
A new funding plan for smaller highway projects from the General Assembly means several roads in area counties will be strengthened and resurfaced to remove posted weight limits. They will allow more types of heavier vehicles to use these roads and in turn help promote future development in those areas. The N.C. Department of Transportation worked with the General Assembly last year to establish the Division Mobility/Modernization Fund. It is a way to speed up smaller-scale road work outside of …
Public Input Sought for Proposed Improvements for a Garner Intersection
A proposal to upgrade the U.S. 70/N.C. 50 intersection with Hammond Road/Timber Drive in northwest Garner will be the subject of a N.C. Department of Transportation public meeting on Tuesday, March 27. The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), which works with the NCDOT on the development of transportation projects in the Raleigh-Durham area, has proposed changes to the intersection to go with widening U.S.70/N.C. 50 to a six-lane highway between U.S. 401 and I-40. Planners are considering an interchange conversion or a reconfiguration …