Morrisville - A new road linking
Aviation Parkway and Airport Boulevard in Wake County is on its way. The N.C.
Department of Transportation has awarded an $11.6-million contract to Barnhill
Contracting Company of Rocky Mount to build a 1.6-mile stretch of McCrimmon
Parkway between the two roads in Morrisville.
The new section will be a four-lane median-divided road with
eight-foot sidewalks. On its east end, it starts at the intersection where Evans
Road currently ends at Aviation Parkway. That intersection will get upgrades as
part of the project. There will be two through lanes on Aviation Parkway, with
an additional southbound left-turn lane and right-turn lane, as well as a
northbound left-turn lane for traffic turning onto the new section of McCrimmon
Parkway. Both Evans Road and McCrimmon Parkway will also have right and
left-turn lanes to access Aviation Parkway.
The west end of the new section of road will link up to an already
existing section of McCrimmon Parkway that goes between Airport Boulevard and
west of Perimeter Park Drive.
Work on the new section of McCrimmon Parkway can start as early as
April 30. By mid-November 2019, all work should wrap up except vegetation
improvements, which can continue into May 2020.
Once completed, this new section will connect with a part of
McCrimmon Parkway that the Town of Morrisville is currently building, filling
the gap between where it currently ends near Perimeter Park Drive and N.C. 54.
It is also a four-lane median-divided road with eight-foot sidewalks, and is
expected to be open this fall.
Once the town project and the NCDOT project are both complete,
McCrimmon Parkway is expected to provide some congestion relief for the
heavily-traveled section of N.C. 54 between Airport Boulevard and Aviation
Parkway.
And more improvements on the McCrimmon Parkway corridor are in the
works. NCDOT projects expected to start in 2021 will change the current
intersection where it meets N.C. 54 and crosses over adjacent railroad tracks to
an intersection that has traffic going over N.C. 54 and the railroad tracks, and
the road will be widened to four lanes between there and Davis Drive.