Asheville Citizen-Times & CEG - Mon May 05, 2025
VIDEO: Asheville, N.C.'s Pair of Huge Interstate 26 Projects Moving Forward at Different Speeds
NCDOT opens new I-26 lanes in Buncombe County amid $531 million widening project. Just a few days after new permanent lanes opened along Interstate 26 the south side of Asheville, N.C., additional lanes became operational the morning of April 15, 2025, the state Department of Transportation (NCDOT) announced....
ARTBA - Wed April 23, 2025
Worker Fatalities, Injuries in Highway, Bridge Construction Sector Decline
The highway and bridge sector is making measured progress in reducing worker deaths and injuries compared with the broader construction industry, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released April 23, 2025, to coincide with National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW)....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Wed April 23, 2025
State Road, Bridge Repairs in East Tennessee Due to Helene Heading Toward Finish Line
Almost seven months after the remnants of Hurricane Helene roared through Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, causing billions of dollars in damage and claiming more than 100 lives between the two states, most major repair work has been finished in both states, particularly in Tennessee....
The Mountaineer - Mon February 24, 2025
Engineers Believe Long-Term I-40 Rebuild in N.C. Should Start at Pigeon River, Work Upward
With two of the four lanes of the collapsed portion of Interstate 40 set to be reopened on March 1, 2025 in far western N.C., following Hurricane Helene's destruction in fall 2024, attention will soon turn to the much grander and more difficult long-range goal of a permanent fix to the major U.S....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu January 30, 2025
Fayetteville, N.C.'s Raeford Road Undergoing $147.8M Rebuild
As the home of more than 392,000 residents and United States' military personnel stationed at Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) in its metropolitan area, Fayetteville, N.C., is a vibrant, growing city about an hour south of Raleigh along Interstate 95....
CEG - Wed January 22, 2025
NCDOT's Plan to Reopen Storm-Damaged Interstate 40 By Jan. 1 Hit Snag
Since Hurricane Helene devastated parts of western North Carolina in late September, the response from the state's Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has been relentless. Agency crews have worked hundreds of thousands of hours to help North Carolina's mountainous region recover from the most destructive storm in state history....
NCDOT & Wilmington StarNews - Mon December 23, 2024
VIDEO: NCDOT Plans Major Road Upgrades in Wilmington Over Next Several Years
A well-traveled roadway in the coastal port city of Wilmington, N.C., will be improved due to a recently awarded contract by the state Department of Transportation (NCDOT), the agency announced Dec. 18....
Raleigh News & Observer - Mon November 18, 2024
NCDOT Engineers Able to Rebuild Gap in Key Highway Bridge Damaged By Hurricane
The small mountain community of Bat Cave, in the rugged Hickory Nut Gorge southeast of Asheville, N.C., paid a heavy price in late September for being in the path of the remnants of what was Hurricane Helene....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu November 07, 2024
Raising I-95 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain
One small town getting hit by a pair of destructive floods in three years by powerful hurricanes is almost assuredly going to lead to expensive engineering countermeasures. That certainly has been the case the last few years in Lumberton, N.C., where Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 each caused 1,000-year-floods along the city's Lumber River and inundated sections of Interstate 95, the United States' primary freeway on the East Coast, leading to its partial closure in the Tarheel State's Coastal Plain....
NCDOT - Thu November 07, 2024
NCDOT Estimates Date for 2-Way Traffic in Gorge
Traffic may be flowing in both directions on North Carolina's Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge — albeit slower than normal — by New Year's Day. N.C. Department of Transportation officials anticipate a contractor completing a stabilization project securing the westbound lanes of I-40 in the gorge....
