Thursday, November 6, 2008

Road closures

The North Carolina Department of Transportation will be closing both north bound lanes of US 19-23 (Future I-26 West) to repair the Aiken Road bridge, which was damaged earlier this year by an accident. The road will be closed on the weekends of Nov. 7-10, 14-17, and 21-23. The road will close on Friday afternoon at 8 pm and will reopen on Monday at 11 am except for the weekend of Nov. 21-23. On that weekend the road will reopen at midnight Sunday night the 23rd. Southbound traffic will not be affected during this closure. This work will all be contingent upon suitable weather. Please refer to: www.ncdot.org/doh/ and pick the road conditions tab for any updates.

Detour route is as follows:

Driving North on US 19/23 (Future I-26 West) traffic will take exit number 21, travel to bottom of ramp and free flow thru signal making a left turn onto SR 1882 (New Stock Road) and continue on New Stock Road to SR1727 (Monticello Road), free flow through this intersection and continue on Monticello road to its intersection with US 25-70. There will be an active traffic signal at this intersection. Turn right on US 25-70 go across bridge over US 19/23 (Future I-26 West) and turn left to on ramp for US 19/23 (Future I-26 West) and resume traveling on US 19/23 (Future I-26 West) at exit 19. All traffic traveling on US 19/23 Business will not be allowed to access New Stock Road. This is necessary to allow all the traffic from US 19/23 (Future I-26 West) to free flow through this intersection.

1 comment:

askasheville said...

I guess they were trying to control the overload at New Stock by not letting anyone get off the hwy and go up to Merrimon. Major inconvenience.