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Traffic will detour off U.S. 117 North in Wayne County starting next week to allow for the construction of a new bridge.
A contractor for the N.C. Department of Transportation is building a highway interchange at Country Club Road, south of Goldsboro. Traffic will need to detour off the highway at that location until the project is completed by next July.
Weather permitting, the shift will occur on Monday, Oct. 29, when northbound traffic will exit onto newly built ramps and come to an all-way stop. From there, motorists will be able to proceed back onto the highway and continue northward, or turn left or right onto Country Club Road.
In a few weeks, the contractor will do the same for U.S. 117 South, detouring traffic onto new ramps and coming to a stop at Country Club Road.
Once both directions of U.S. 117 are being detoured, workers will begin moving dirt to elevate the land where the future bridges will go over Country Club Road.
Last year, NCDOT awarded a $20.6 million contract to S.T. Wooten Corp. of Wilson to upgrade the highway’s intersections with O’Berry and Country Club roads into interchanges. With the work, O’Berry Road now goes over U.S. 117, and that interchange is scheduled to open by the end of November.
The notable and most surprising one is that Pikeville finally joined the 21st century and voted to allow the sale of mixed drinks in town limits. Pikeville is no longer a dry town.
NCDOT is holding 3 public meetings to discuss upgrading US-117/Future I-795 to interstate standards between Goldsboro and I-40. First meeting is Nov. 29 in Faison, second meeting is Dec. 3 in Goldsboro, and 3rd meeting is Dec. 4 in Mount Olive.
The final phase of the downtown Center Street Streetscape project, originally scheduled to begin last month, has been pushed back to January due to concerns from the Federal Transit Administration regarding design plans for Cornerstone Commons.
(I would post a link to the article, but ever since Paxton Media Group recently bought the News-Argus, they have done a poor job of updating the articles on the website, leaving only the E-editions of the newspaper, which is lousy on mobile. For those with PC’s or lots of patience, it’s the Nov. 4 edition.)
I see the old bank vault is still there. I’m sure the town will put it to good use with what they charge for utilities...
Last edited by LM117; 11-15-2018 at 05:39 AM..
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For those with PC’s or lots of patience, it’s the Nov. 4 edition.)
