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A new road linking Aviation Parkway and Airport Boulevard in Wake County is on its way. The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded an $11.6-million contract to Barnhill Contracting Company of Rocky Mount to build a 1.6-mile stretch of McCrimmon Parkway between the two roads in Morrisville.
The new section will be a four-lane median-divided road with eight-foot sidewalks. On its east end, it starts at the intersection where Evans Road currently ends at Aviation Parkway. That intersection will get upgrades as part of the project. There will be two through lanes on Aviation Parkway, with an additional southbound left-turn lane and right-turn lane, as well as a northbound left-turn lane for traffic turning onto the new section of McCrimmon Parkway. Both Evans Road and McCrimmon Parkway will also have right and left-turn lanes to access Aviation Parkway.
The west end of the new section of road will link up to an already existing section of McCrimmon Parkway that goes between Airport Boulevard and west of Perimeter Park Drive.
Work on the new section of McCrimmon Parkway can start as early as April 30. By mid-November 2019, all work should wrap up except vegetation improvements, which can continue into May 2020.
Once completed, this new section will connect with a part of McCrimmon Parkway that the Town of Morrisville is currently building, filling the gap between where it currently ends near Perimeter Park Drive and N.C. 54. It is also a four-lane median-divided road with eight-foot sidewalks, and is expected to be open this fall.
Once the town project and the NCDOT project are both complete, McCrimmon Parkway is expected to provide some congestion relief for the heavily-traveled section of N.C. 54 between Airport Boulevard and Aviation Parkway.
And more improvements on the McCrimmon Parkway corridor are in the works. An NCDOT project expected to start in 2021 will change the current intersection where it meets N.C. 54 and crosses over adjacent railroad tracks. In its place will be an intersection that has traffic going over N.C. 54 and the railroad tracks. And in 2023, the road will be widened to four lanes between there and Davis Drive.
McCrimmon at 54 is a total nightmare at this point, and I have trouble seeing how this is going to change that in the near term. In 5 years, when they build the overpass and FINALLY widen the causeway over Lake Crabtree, Morrisville might be worthy of it’s prior branding, “The Heart of the Triangle”. Until then, it’s a town that’s grown far beyond the capacity of it’s road infrastructure...with very badly clogged arteries! While they are to a large degree at the mercy of the state for road improvements, the state didn’t approve all the commercial and residential development that greatly worsened the problem.
McCrimmon at 54 is a total nightmare at this point, and I have trouble seeing how this is going to change that in the near term. In 5 years, when they build the overpass and FINALLY widen the causeway over Lake Crabtree, Morrisville might be worthy of it’s prior branding, “The Heart of the Triangle”. Until then, it’s a town that’s grown far beyond the capacity of it’s road infrastructure...with very badly clogged arteries! While they are to a large degree at the mercy of the state for road improvements, the state didn’t approve all the commercial and residential development that greatly worsened the problem.
Which developments could Morrisville have denied?
If the suggestions meet zoning, and/or there are reasonable precedents for rezoning, the town is pretty well stuck.
NC 54 carries tons of traffic between Cary and Durham/RTP every day.
Just like Apex with the Eagles C-Store going in across from Green Level HS.
McCrimmon at 54 is a total nightmare at this point, and I have trouble seeing how this is going to change that in the near term. In 5 years, when they build the overpass and FINALLY widen the causeway over Lake Crabtree, Morrisville might be worthy of it’s prior branding, “The Heart of the Triangle”. Until then, it’s a town that’s grown far beyond the capacity of it’s road infrastructure...with very badly clogged arteries! While they are to a large degree at the mercy of the state for road improvements, the state didn’t approve all the commercial and residential development that greatly worsened the problem.
Feel free to not drive through here then. Or contribute extra tax dollars for our roads, like I did when I went to the ballot box and voted to increase my taxes to make this very project a reality. That way, people who don’t live here in town can drive on better roads that the state won’t widen or build. Luckily, once Morrisville kicked in 8-10 million bucks, DOT got off their tails and decided to also kick in money to make McCrimmon even better.
And Mike is right, most things can’t be simply turned down and most of our traffic is out of town people anyway.
While they are to a large degree at the mercy of the state for road improvements, the state didn’t approve all the commercial and residential development that greatly worsened the problem.
There are so many needs for improved or new roads that hardly anyone can get to the top of the list in the absence of a crisis. If you wait for roads to be built before you approve new development, nothing would ever get developed. Fact of life. Or to put it differently, NCDOT isn't in the business of solving hypothetical problems. Perhaps they should be, but they aren't.
There are so many needs for improved or new roads that hardly anyone can get to the top of the list in the absence of a crisis. If you wait for roads to be built before you approve new development, nothing would ever get developed. Fact of life. Or to put it differently, NCDOT isn't in the business of solving hypothetical problems. Perhaps they should be, but they aren't.
If they did that, many of the same people would scream bloody murder about the money being spent. Either that or, like the Triangle Expressway, where they planned ahead and built it 3 lanes per side, people constantly complain “the road is empty, what a waste!”
Good stuff, especially bridging McCrimmon over the railroad tracks. Five years away if things stay on schedule.
I'm assuming once they make McCrimmon Parkway a bridge over NC-54 and the railroad tracks, in order to get to NC-54 from McCrimmon and vice versa, you will have to use Perimeter Park Dr., since there's no room to make an interchange with this new bridge and NC-54 with Sheetz and the Fire Department there?
I'm assuming once they make McCrimmon Parkway a bridge over NC-54 and the railroad tracks, in order to get to NC-54 from McCrimmon and vice versa, you will have to use Perimeter Park Dr., since there's no room to make an interchange with this new bridge and NC-54?
Last I heard they’re going to do some kind of interchange-y thing where you turn off McCrimmon and circle back to 54. Behind the Sheetz maybe and come up between it and the landscape place or maybe wiping out the landscape place. I’ll see if I can find something.
Last I heard they’re going to do some kind of interchange-y thing where you turn off McCrimmon and circle back to 54. Behind the Sheetz maybe and come up between it and the landscape place or maybe wiping out the landscape place. I’ll see if I can find something.
I can see that, it they buy Triangle Landscape Supplies and make the interchange there, should be plenty of room and just move the light from it's current location northwest to the new access road.
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Will be worse before it gets better
Or contribute extra tax dollars for our roads, like I did when I went to the ballot box and voted to increase my taxes to make this very project a reality. That way, people who don’t live here in town can drive on better roads that the state won’t widen or build. Luckily, once Morrisville kicked in 8-10 million bucks, DOT got off their tails and decided to also kick in money to make McCrimmon even better.
