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    The North Carolina Department of Transportation is holding a media availability on June 20th to discuss the start of the $13.1 million U.S. 52 Improvement Project in Winston-Salem. NCDOT Division 9 Resident Engineer Wright Archer will be available to discuss how the project will streamline and repave part of U.S. 52, improve an interchange, remove bridges and ramps, and construct a new ramp to improve traffic flow on the heavily traveled highway that was not designed to handle its current traffic volume. Completion of the project in 2012 will result in less congestion on U.S. 52 and help prepare the area for the 2018 Business 40 Improvement Project that will fully close that highway for two years

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    The North Carolina Department of Transportation is holding a media availability on June 20th to discuss the start of the $13.1 million U.S. 52 Improvement Project in Winston-Salem. NCDOT Division 9 Resident Engineer Wright Archer will be available to discuss how the project will streamline and repave part of U.S. 52, improve an interchange, remove bridges and ramps, and construct a new ramp to improve traffic flow on the heavily traveled highway that was not designed to handle its current traffic volume. Completion of the project in 2012 will result in less congestion on U.S. 52 and help prepare the area for the 2018 Business 40 Improvement Project that will fully close that highway for two years

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    Media Advisory - Us 52 Improvement Project

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    The North Carolina Department of Transportation is holding a media availability on June 20th to discuss the start of the $13.1 million U.S. 52 Improvement Project in Winston-Salem. NCDOT Division 9 Resident Engineer Wright Archer will be available to discuss how the project will streamline and repave part of U.S. 52, improve an interchange, remove bridges and ramps, and construct a new ramp to improve traffic flow on the heavily traveled highway that was not designed to handle its current traffic volume. Completion of the project in 2012 will result in less congestion on U.S. 52 and help prepare the area for the 2018 Business 40 Improvement Project that will fully close that highway for two years

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    STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
    BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE
    GOVERNOR

    EUGENE A. CONTI, JR.


    SECRETARY

    Release: Immediate Contact: John Daniels, (919) 733-2522 Release No.: 469

    Date: June 13, 2011 Distribution: Division 9

    ***MEDIA ADVISORY*** What: When: Where: Media availability to discuss start of U.S. 52 Improvement Project in Winston-Salem Monday, June 20, at 10 a.m. Division 9 Office 375 Silas Creek Parkway Winston-Salem

    Comments: NCDOT Division 9 Resident Engineer Wright Archer will be available for media interviews about the project and can explain how to Know Before You Go about upcoming lane or ramp closures. Following the interviews, he will then take media to the project site to shoot b-roll or take pictures. Media kits containing more information about the project will be provided at the availability. Construction on the $13.1 million project will start on June 20. It involves streamlining and repaving one-half mile of the road from U.S. 421/Business 40 to Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (Exit 110 B), and improving Akron Drive at the U.S. 52 interchange. The project involves removing the Greyhound Court bridge over U.S. 52; removing the ramps at Third, Fourth and Fifth streets; constructing a new ramp from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive onto U.S. 52 South; and other improvements to the highway and surrounding streets. More than 90,000 vehicles drive on this section of U.S. 52 every day. However, the highway was built in the 1960s and was not designed to carry such a large amount of vehicles daily. Due to the current ramp configurations, congestion often develops, because motorists do not have enough room to efficiently enter or exit the highway. Once this project is completed in 2012, traffic will flow more efficiently, and there will be less congestion on U.S. 52. In addition to the immediate benefits this project will bring to U.S. 52, it will also help prepare Winston-Salem for the Business 40 Improvement Project in 2018, which will completely close a 1.1-mile stretch of the highway for up to two years to conduct major safety and traffic flow improvements.

    ***NCDOT***

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