RALEIGH -- The state Department of Transportation has awarded contracts to widen sections of U.S.401 in northern Wake County and T.W. Alexander Drive in Durham County, starting as soon as Feb.1.
U.S.401 will be widened from two to four lanes, with traffic signals and noise walls, from Ligon Mill Road to Louisbury Road. The 2.3-mile project would extend the widened 401 close to Rolesville. D.H. Griffin Infrastructure LLC of Greensboro won the $8.6million contract.
A little more than a mile of T.W. Alexander Drive will be widened to four lanes from Cornwallis Road to the Durham Freeway.
The project will include improved traffic signals at Cornwallis Road, Moore Drive and the Durham Freeway, and a bicycle lane will be installed. Thompson Contracting, Grading, Paving and Utilities Inc. of Raleigh won the $6.5million contract.
The state also awarded a contract to build a 0.6-mile extension of District Drive and an access road in West Raleigh. The roads will serve a building under construction that will house the state National Guard headquarters, the State Emergency Operations Center, a DOT transportation operations center and the N.C. Turnpike Authority.
Federal stimulus money will pay for all three projects.
