Thu December 10, 2020 - Southeast Edition #26
Cindy Riley â CEG Correspondent
The project involves construction of new lanes adjacent to existing roadways; roadway construction on new alignments; and modifications to existing roadways that intersect the new construction.
(William Carlson, project engineer, Thalle Construction photo)
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North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is overseeing an $89 million effort to widen 8.2 mi. of U.S. 158 from I-95/N.C. 46 in Roanoke Rapids to St. John Church Road west of Jackson. Most of the current two-lane road will be widened to a four-lane median-divided road. The project also will include a bypass of Garysburg. U.S. 158 is a major North Carolina thoroughfare reaching west from Winston-Salem to the Outer Banks on the east coast, said Brooks Braswell, NCDOT resident engineer. It s the primary east-west route connecting both I-85 and I-95 to the northern coast of North Carolina. Widening this road in strategic areas i
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