Click on the image below to download the February 2010 project newsletter. Find out more about the project’s progress and what’s happening on the Street in the very near future.
Hillsborough Street Newsletter – February 2010
Filed under: Construction
Construction on the center island for the Hillsborough Street roundabout continues and the first of the center brick medians have been going in as well.
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
During the week of February 1 through 5, construction crews will be conducting the following activities:
- Continued work on the Oberlin/Pullen roundabout center island;
- Continued work on the Hillsborough/Pullen roundabout center island;
- Installation of sewer and water lines on the south side of Hillsborough Street starting at Pogue Street heading west to Gardner Street (2700 blocks), with some crossings across Hillsborough Street;
- Installation of curb and gutter on Enterprise Street approach to Hillsborough Street;
- Various utility work along Oberlin Road and the south side of Hillsborough Street;
- Potential utility work and conduit system installation on the north side of Hillsborough Street near The Alley bowling alley (2600 block);
- Continued median work from Oberlin Road to Enterprise Road;
- Installation of curb and gutter, brick sidewalk pavers, and paving on the south side of Hillsborough Street from Chamberlian Street heading west towards Horne Street (2300-2400 blocks); and
- Grading and preparation of various sites for future construction activities.
TRAFFIC UPDATE
Vehicles: Traffic delays on Hillsborough Street are expected between Logan Court and Gardner Street, with one-lane operations at times.
Temporary traffic delays at the intersection of Hillsborough Street and Pullen Road at times due to the movement of equipment for the island construction.
Oberlin Road is now open to one-way traffic northbound.
The Oberlin Road parking lot for Red Hot + Blue, Player’s Retreat, and Sam & Bill’s remains open for customers. Oberlin Road access to BB&T remains open as well.
Horne and Lampe Streets approaching Hillsborough Street are closed due to utility construction work, but Horne Street is expected to open this week.
Pedestrians: Crosswalks and campus entrances remain open near Horne Street and the Alley (formerly Western Lanes) in the busiest construction area. Numerous crosswalks are in place elsewhere along the street.
Sidewalks on the north side of Hillsborough Street from Logan Court to Enterprise Street are closed due to construction activity. Pedestrian traffic will be shifted to the sidewalks on the south side of Hillsborough Street, now completed.
EVENTS UPDATE
Look for a project newsletter this week detailing our project progress, traffic patterns during the roundabout construction, and measures the construction crews will take to keep the sidewalks and doorways open during when construction moves to the north side of the street.
Hillsborough Street businesses remain open for business. Please patronize your local businesses as we work to build the community’s new vision for Hillsborough Street.
Remember that the Krispy Kreme Challenge is on Feb. 6. Runners will assemble on the 2100 block of Hillsborough Street. Pullen Street will be closed from the roundabout one block off Hillsborough to Hillsborough from ~7:30 to 11 a.m. on Feb. 6. Hillsborough Street will be closed from Enterprise to Woodburn and Boylan to Woodburn from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. St Mary’s Street closed from Peace to Hillsborough St from 8:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The race should be over and all traffic will be reopened by 11 a.m. on Saturday.
From Bob Geary at IndyBlogs:
Hillsborough Street bike lanes are looking good. (!)
“The City Council’s public works committee held its long-awaited meeting on the issue last night. The verdict, by unanimous decision: There should be bike lanes on all of Hillsborough Street from downtown to the Fairgrounds. No exception for the Hillsborough Street Project (Phase 1, remember) in front of N.C. State…
“The only hitch in this giddyup may come from the state Department of Transportation… DOT’s not a fan, city staffers report, of segmenting the two travel lanes … into a 10′ vehicle section, a 4′ bike-lane section and 2′ to protect the bikes from “dooring” …
“If DOT goes along, the bike lanes will be striped as soon as the construction work is done — sometime this summer, in other words.”
From the Raleigh Public Record blog:
Hillsborough Street bike lanes move forward
“District B councilor John Odom said during the meeting that if the city can keep the project on schedule and on budget and still put in the bike lanes, than there was no reason not to do it.
“Bonner Gaylord, who represents District E, joked about the long process ahead to approve the bike lanes: ‘We’re doing it as fast as bureaucratically possible…Essentially we’re charting a course.’”
From NewRaleigh.com blog:
Hillsborough Street Bike Lanes on Public Works Agenda Tuesday
“…[a local group of bikers] put together a short presentation of their proposal for Hillsborough Street. It is illustrated below in the image gallery but on Fayetteville Street in Downtown Raleigh because it was not possible to do so on Hillsborough Street currently b/c of the construction.”
