CHAPEL HILL – State transportation officials have awarded a contract to provide bicycle and pedestrian accommodations to a roadway connecting Durham and Orange counties.
S.T. Wooten Corporation of Wilson entered the low bid of $4.6 million to upgrade about a mile of Old Durham-Old Chapel Hill Road between U.S. 15-501 in Chapel Hill and Pope Road at the Durham city limits. Planned improvements include bicycle lanes, crosswalks and sidewalks.
Work on this project is expected to begin early this fall and the improvements should be open for use by Aug. 15, 2020.
While work is underway, lane closures are not allowed on U.S. 15-501 on any day from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. The contractor also cannot close Sage and Old Durham-Old Chapel Hill roads; Scarlette, Standish, Bluefield, Lakeview and White Oak drives; and Cooper Street from Monday through Friday between 6-9 a.m. and 4-7 p.m. to accommodate rush hour traffic.
This is the second phase of a project to improve the connector road. The first phase, spanning from Pope Road to Garrett Road in Durham, was put in its final traffic pattern on May 9.