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An entrance ramp to a Craven County highway will close early next week as the N.C. Department of Transportation continues work to upgrade the highway to an interstate.
On Monday, weather permitting, the westbound entrance ramp to U.S. 70 at Clarks Road in New Bern will be closed to traffic. If it should rain, crews will work March 26. During the closure, NCDOT will remove the top 2.5” of existing asphalt and replace it with 2.5” of new asphalt.
Traffic on Clarks Road will be sent eastbound onto U.S. 70 to the N.C. 43 exit. After taking the exit, traffic will drive on the bridge over U.S. 70 and turn left onto the entrance ramp for U.S. 70 West.
The work is part of a larger project to bring U.S. 70 up to interstate standards. Crews are widening shoulders, as well as milling and repaving the highway, which will be renamed Interstate 42. The project in its entirety is 32 miles long and costs $25.5 million.
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NEW BERN - The N.C. Department of Transportation will close multiple ramps to a Craven County highway next weekend as work continues to bring the highway up to interstate standards.
Crews will close the U.S. 70 westbound exit ramps onto Glenburnie Road and the westbound entrance ramp from Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard onto U.S. 70 West on March 30 and 31, weather permitting. If it should rain, crews will do the work the following weekend. The outside right lane between the two ramps will also be closed.
During the closure, NCDOT will remove the top 2.5” of existing asphalt and replace it with 2.5” of new asphalt.
Traffic accessing U.S. 70 West from Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard will turn onto the entrance ramp to U.S. 70 East and continue to the Pembroke exit. At the light, turn left and continue across the bridge, turning left onto the entrance ramp for U.S. 70 West.
Traffic accessing Glenburnie Road from U.S. 70 West will take exit 411 for N.C. 43. At the stop sign, turn left and continue across the bridge, turning right onto the entrance ramp to U.S. 70 East. Drivers will continue east and take the Glenburnie exit.
The work is part of a larger project to bring U.S. 70 up to interstate standards. Crews are widening shoulders, as well as milling and repaving the highway, which will be renamed Interstate 42. The project in its entirety is 32 miles long and costs $25.5 million.
NEW BERN – The N.C. Department of Transportation is planning to close the entrance ramp to a Craven County highway for one day this weekend to make improvements.
The entrance ramp from Glenburnie Road to U.S. 70 West will be closed to traffic 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 6. If it rains, the work will be done on Sunday.
During the closure, NCDOT will remove the top 2.5” of existing asphalt and replace it with 2.5” of new asphalt.
To get around the closure, traffic accessing U.S. 70 West from Glenburnie Road will turn onto the entrance ramp for U.S. 70 East and continue to the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard exit. At the stoplight, drivers will turn left and continue under the overpass, turning left at the stoplight onto the entrance ramp for U.S. 70 West.
The work is part of a larger project to bring U.S. 70 up to interstate standards. Crews are widening shoulders, as well as milling and repaving the highway, which will be renamed Interstate 42. The project in its entirety is 32 miles long and costs $25.5 million.
The NC Department of Transportation has increased the speed limit from a section near Clayton to Pine Level from 55mph to 60mph. The new speed limit went into effect last week when new speed limit signs were installed
The NC Department of Transportation has increased the speed limit from a section near Clayton to Pine Level from 55mph to 60mph. The new speed limit went into effect last week when new speed limit signs were installed
NEW BERN – The N.C. Department of Transportation will continue a Craven County project to bring U.S. 70 up to interstate standards by closing some ramps this weekend.
The closures will occur on the eastbound entrance ramp from Clarks Road to U.S. 70 and the exit ramp from U.S. 70 to Clarks Road. The entrance ramp will be closed between 7 a.m. April 12 and 7 p.m. April 14. The exit ramp will be closed between 7 a.m. April 13 and 7 p.m. April 14.
Similarly, to the previous entrance and exit ramp closures, NCDOT will remove the top 2.5” of existing asphalt and replace it with 2.5” of new asphalt.
A detour will send eastbound U.S. 70 drivers needing to access Clarks Road to exit 411, where they will take N.C. 43, drive over the highway and turn left to enter U.S. 70 West to reach the Clarks Road exit.
This will be the detour route for Clarks Road drivers wanting to reach U.S. 70 East: They will take U.S. 70 West to the Tuscarora Road Exit, continue to the stop sign at the top of the ramp, turn left onto Tuscarora Road; then drive over U.S. 70 and take a left onto U.S. 70 East.
The work is part of a larger project to bring U.S. 70 up to interstate standards. Crews are widening shoulders, as well as milling and repaving the highway, which will be renamed I-42. The project in its entirety is 32 miles long and costs $25.5 million.
Beginning next week, the exit numbers on the Knightdale Bypass will be changing to I-87 exit numbers. Work is scheduled to finish by the end of July. The new exit numbers are listed in the press release.
"Some sections of the existing highway were already built to interstate standards and could be signed quickly. Others will get the signage as work is completed to change the highway to those standards over the next two decades."
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