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September 8, 2006

Jamestown Bypass, US 311 extension get bumped back

Transportation reporter Taft Wireback had a report this morning about how changes in the N.C. Department of Transportation's draft Transportation Improvement Program for FY 2007-2012 affect local road projects. (Note: If you try to make sense of the TIP, we're in Division 7 and Guilford County projects start on page 284). It's an important document in the transportation world because it outlines which projects the state intends to fund over the next six years. Projects left out, are generally out in the cold.

The Jamestown Bypass stayed in the improvement program, which means the state is planning on going forward with it, but it got bumped back a couple of years. Depending on your perspective that could be either a good or bad thing.

The US 311 extension from Interstate 85 Business to Interstate 85 got bumped back one fiscal year -- from '06 to '07 -- but the district engineer says it shouldn't really affect that project much because its really just pushing it back a few months, not a full year.

Posted by Jonathan Jones at September 8, 2006 12:10 PM