The mobile signs are up on Rogers Road announcing that the bridge over Smith Creek will be closed to traffic beginning Monday, June 27. You will have to find new routes to the schools and stores along the road.
The work had been scheduled to begin on June 13, but Blythe Construction, the contractor for the state Department of Transportation, had weather delays because of rain at another job. Blythe will still have 135 days to complete the job of reconstructing the bridge.
Blythe will also widen the part of Rogers Road from Hope Lutheran Church to the Forestville Road/Heritage Lake Road intersection to five lanes with sidewalks work requested by the Town of Wake Forest, which will pay $1,221,848.79 for that work to be added to the bridge contract. The widening may take longer than the bridge reconstruction; if so, the bridge will open for traffic and the widening work will be completed with lane closures as necessary.
The town has released an updated detour map which suggests drivers use South Main Street, the N.C. 98 Bypass and Heritage Lake Road to reach Rogers Road on the west and north and a combination of South Main Street, Ligon Mill Road, Burlington Mills Road, U.S. 401, Young Street in Rolesville, Averette Road, Jones Dairy Road, and Chalk Road on the south and east.
