There are three traffic-impacting construction projects associated with the Holding Village subdivision underway or complete.
The largest and with the most impact on traffic will be the connection of the new section of South Franklin Street to the N.C. 98 Bypass from the south and conversion of that intersection to a reduced conflict intersection, a superstreet. You can see examples of that around Wegman’s.
There will be traffic delays while that superstreet is built. There will be the usual traffic cones and workmen directing traffic. Drivers are advised to find other routes if possible during this construction.
That new section of South Franklin Street is under construction as are all the streets in that area of Holding Village immediately to the south of the bypass. The work is being done by Fred Smith Company, which is also doing the other two projects.
The asphalt was laid this week on the second project which has meant some delays for South Main traffic. The contractor has been installing an additional westbound left turn lane onto the N.C. 98 Bypass (Dr. Calvin Jones Highway) and an additional receiving lane on South Main Street (U.S. 1-A). The contractor also built a new left turn lane into Lidl.
Work is almost complete on the third project, providing a right-turn lane and an improved right-in lane on Friendship Chapel Road. Paving was complete last week. This week a crew is cleaning up debris before the additional land needed is seeded.
This week Wake Forest Planning Director Courtney Tanner confirmed what some Fred Smith employees have said: The current Friendship Chapel Road will not be connected to the street network in Holding Village. She said that CSX railroad crossing (on the same right-of-way for the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, the first railroad chartered in North Carolina that was completed to Raleigh in 1840) will be closed in the future. That future will be the Southeast High Speed Rail project which is still languishing without federal funding or rebuilding of the track and right-of-way in Virginia which was abandoned or sold decades ago.
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