VP motorcade will likely stop traffic between RDU and Durham on Wednesday
Vice President Kamala Harris is coming to Durham on Wednesday, and the place you’re most likely to encounter her is on the streets and highways as she moves about.
The State Highway Patrol and local police usually clear a path for visiting presidents and vice presidents, closing off the roads they and their entourage take to and from the airport and around town.
Harris touched down at Raleigh-Durham International Airport shortly after 9:30 a.m. She’s scheduled to tour an apprentice program at Durham Technical Community College off East Lawson and South Briggs streets at 10:25 a.m. and then speak at 11 a.m.
The White House has not disclosed which route the Harris motorcade will take to Durham Tech, but the fastest way would be on Interstate 40 and the Durham Freeway.
Harris is not scheduled to leave Durham to return to RDU until 3:20 p.m., which leaves her plenty of time to go somewhere else in town for lunch or another stop. The White House did not say what comes after her talk at Durham Tech.
Harris will be traveling with U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to promote “good paying, union jobs.” The apprentice program at Durham Tech is sponsored by IBEW Local 553, an electrical workers union local founded in 1934.
The traffic snarls caused by the Vice President’s visit will likely be fleeting, as the motorcade speeds to its next destination. But on the Durham Tech campus, Cooper Street will be closed all day, according to the college.
This story was originally published March 2, 2022 at 7:31 AM.
