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I drove through there this weekend at night in the rain. I am a very comfortable driver but it was very scary to drive through that area not being familiar with it. It was pitch black, wet, and barrels every which way. It was not at all easy to see where I was supposed to be. Very dangerous!
It is very hard to see through that at night. I avoid it as much as possible, even in the daylight.
It is seriously like an obstacle course.
I'm not disagreeing, but from everything I've read/heard this is a City of Raleigh project, not NCDOT. That's fairly unusual but not unheard of, and I'd assume the same companies bid on projects from both, but since NCDOT gets a lot of flak anyway it'd be nice to know who's really responsible for this one.
It is a Raleigh project, but I think NCDOT still has a hand in managing it as its their road, but I don't know for sure. Either way, there are still lots of things that can come up as well as the fact that many of these public agencies kind of forget who they work for at times when managing them.
The way I understood it, it's a Raleigh project, but they have to follow the DOT design standards for upgrading a "major thoroughfare," which includes a median and street lighting, among other things.
I'm interested in seeing how the traffic patterns play out once the project is finished. People exiting from St. Francis will have to turn right on Leesville due to the median, and then perform a U-turn further down to head back toward Harrington Grove if that is the direction they are heading. This will affect both morning commutes (school drop-off) and, to a lesser extent, weekends when the church is letting out.
There was a story about this on WRAL today - the contractor is banned by NCDOT from bidding on future projects because of the delay in Rolesville. Unfortunately they won the Leesville Road project before the ban.
Not sure why a MI based company is getting road contracts in NC anyway.
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