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Nighttime repaving work starts Wednesday night on a 3.8-mile section of the 540 Outer Loop in western Wake County, from I-40 to U.S. 70.
C.C. Mangum Co. of Raleigh has the $2.2 million contract, funded with stimulus money from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to resurface the roadway and ramps and to rebuild the freeway shoulders.
The work will take place at night only between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., with at least one lane of traffic open at all times. The repaving is to be finished by May 2010.
If this project goes like a recent repaving job nearby on I-40, traffic backups will be possible even late at night with freeway traffic squeezed into a single lane.
Call 511 or check online at www.ncdot.gov/travel/ for construction traffic updates.
Bruce Siceloff reports on traffic and transportation. A News & Observer reporter, editor and blogger since 1976, he took over the
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It's not the matter of "If"
Sat, 12/26/2009 - 04:50 — PrudentPandaIt's not the matter of "If" rather it's for sure that this project will go like a recent repaving job nearby on I-40, and without any doubt, traffic backups will be possible even late at night with freeway traffic squeezed into a single lane. The work will take place at night only between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., with at least one lane of traffic open at all times. The repaving is to be finished by May 2010. And certainly the life will be back on track there after.
It's 12 years old
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 11:09 — BruceSiceloff (author)FYI what they're repaving is the oldest and busiest stretch of the 540 Loop, which opened to traffic in 1997.
540?
Tue, 09/01/2009 - 23:40 — m831830It's them thar 'Yankees' messing up our roads again!
Maybe we should ship them back north and then our roads will last another year or two., and our little boys and girls will be able to get their jobs back. Bless their hearts!!
I am a true Southern Lady !!!!!!!!
540 paving
Tue, 09/01/2009 - 22:43 — jhar44how old is 540?
do we get a discount for the repaving so soon?
pave it again Sam...
Tue, 09/01/2009 - 21:41 — Taxpayer2008DOT paves their work over and over and over again...well it makes for continued job security. Not to worry Obama will borrow the money for it.
repeat
Tue, 09/01/2009 - 21:42 — Taxpayer2008just like a DOT paving job...over again...