The Piedmont Triad Rural Planning Organization made a number of recommendations pertaining to road improvements, road widening and bicycle and pedestrian access at its quarterly meeting on Wednesday.
The Piedmont Triad RPO, the regional group that makes recommendations for road improvements or changes to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, met this week in Greensboro and shored up its latest round of recommended projects.
Andy Bailey, senior transportation engineer and Winston-Salem Metropolitan Planning Organization coordinator, assembled the project list for the Rockingham County Comprehensive Transportation Plan, which includes upgrading U.S. 29 to interstate standards from the Caswell County line to the Guilford County line. The list of recommendations also included numerous road widenings.
Another road improvement, which has already secured funding, will be occurring soon: the widening of Freeway Drive. That project is slated to begin sometime this fiscal year and wrap up within a year’s time, Bailey said.
Bailey presented the Rockingham County CTP, which received a vote of endorsement from RPO members. This means the plan and its proposed improvements will move forward to the North Carolina Board of Transportation. If that board adopts the plan at its meeting in September, the board will send the list of projects back to the RPO to prioritize and submit back to the state with requests for funding, Bailey said.
Bailey also presented a CTP specific to Wentworth, which includes changing N.C. 14 from Bethlehem Church Road to Carroll Creek Road from five lanes to four lanes, widening N.C. 65 from County Home Road to N.C. 87 from two and three lanes to five lanes, widening N.C. 65/87 from two and three lanes to four lanes and widening N.C. 87 from High School Road to Ashley Loop Road to include a center turn lane.
The recommendations for Wentworth also include improving bicycle routes and creating numerous sidewalks to make the town more pedestrian-friendly.
At Wednesday’s meeting, the RPO also approved letters of support for several U.S. Department of Transportation grants, including one for a corridor study and improvements on N.C. 14 in Eden.
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