Raleigh News & Observer - Mon November 18, 2024
NCDOT Engineers Able to Rebuild Gap in Key Highway Bridge Damaged By Hurricane
The small mountain community of Bat Cave, in the rugged Hickory Nut Gorge southeast of Asheville, N.C., paid a heavy price in late September for being in the path of the remnants of what was Hurricane Helene....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu November 07, 2024
Raising I-95 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain
One small town getting hit by a pair of destructive floods in three years by powerful hurricanes is almost assuredly going to lead to expensive engineering countermeasures. That certainly has been the case the last few years in Lumberton, N.C., where Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 each caused 1,000-year-floods along the city's Lumber River and inundated sections of Interstate 95, the United States' primary freeway on the East Coast, leading to its partial closure in the Tarheel State's Coastal Plain....
NCDOT - Thu November 07, 2024
NCDOT Estimates Date for 2-Way Traffic in Gorge
Traffic may be flowing in both directions on North Carolina's Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge — albeit slower than normal — by New Year's Day. N.C. Department of Transportation officials anticipate a contractor completing a stabilization project securing the westbound lanes of I-40 in the gorge....
CEG - Wed October 16, 2024
NCDOT Selects Contractor to Begin Making Repairs On Hurricane-Damaged Interstate 40
Of all the roads that need fixing in western North Carolina, none will pose a bigger challenge than Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge. As a result of Hurricane Helene, the swollen river scoured the earth below the four-lane highway and washed away the eastbound lanes in several places....
AASHTO - Tue September 17, 2024
NCDOT Culvert Inspection Team Uncovers History
Crews inspecting a culvert scheduled for replacement under N.C. 200 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, found it contained an unusual combination of materials: About a third each of cut granite, arched terra-cotta block — also called tile — as well as corrugated metal pipe; with the pipe, interestingly enough, the most deteriorated section of the culvert, despite it being the most modern of the culvert's materials....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu September 12, 2024
Lane Continues Work On $475M Blue Ridge I-440 In North Carolina
The barrage of orange cones and heavy equipment is a familiar site for motorists who travel the Raleigh Beltline in Wake County, N.C. For almost half a decade, construction crews have been working on the $475 million effort known as the Blue Ridge I-440 Improvement project, taking place on the interstate between just south of Walnut Street in Cary and north of Wade Avenue....
CEG - Wed July 10, 2024
Buttigieg Breaks Ground On New High-Speed Rail Line in Raleigh, Tours Other N.C. Projects
Construction has started on the first phase of a new high-speed rail line designed to link Raleigh, N.C., to Richmond, Va. The work got under way following a July 1 groundbreaking in the state capital attended by Pete Buttigieg, secretary of the U.S....
Iredell Free News & CEG - Tue May 14, 2024
Officials in Statesville, N.C., Break Ground On New, $12.5M Regional Airport Terminal
Officials in Statesville, N.C., held a groundbreaking ceremony May 8 to mark the beginning of construction of a new terminal for the city's regional airport. Elected leaders and city staff were among those on hand for the kickoff event....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 28, 2024
NCDOT Works to Improve Corridor K in Western N.C.
A complex project with a long history in western North Carolina will improve mobility and pave the way for economic development when the ribbon is ultimately cut. Construction on Corridor K, a $681 million undertaking, began in late 2022, following decades of planning and discussions....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Mon January 08, 2024
Portion of North Carolina's I-42 Reaches Last Year of Work
A relatively short but critical bypass of U.S. Highway 70 around the small community of Havelock, in southeastern North Carolina, is now in its last year of construction after the state's Department of Transportation (NCDOT) commissioned the project in 2019....
