You want to avoid Duke and Gregson streets during the day next week.

Starting Monday, the city is going to be rerounting traffic on that major north-south corridor while Duke Energy takes down 30 old streetside trees.

The city's intending to come back in January and plant new ones. But the old trees need to go because decades of pruning to keep the power lines' right-of-way clear have taken their toll.

Durham saw its first slices of the federal stimulus pie Tuesday, when the governor's office announced how it divvied up its first $466 million for transportation.

Durham gets five projects:

• Resurfacing the Wake Forest Highway (N.C. 98) from Junction Road to Sherron Road;
• Widening and resurfacing the Old Oxford Highway from Roxboro Road to Granville County;
• Resurfacing Hillandale/Fulton Street from I-85 to Erwin Road;
• Patching and resurfacing Old Page Road from Angier Avenue to Mineral Springs Road;
• Resurfacing Duke Street (U.S. 501) from Hudson Avenue to Horton Road.

The five projects cover 18.11 miles; Durham is getting $4.85 million worth of stimulation.

Sweetening the pot, according to City of Durham transportation manager Mark Ahrendsen, the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization is getting about $7.89 million that has not been allocated to projects yet; and about $8 million in transit funding.