Sold Residents Info Restaurants Rest. After preliminary work last year, the State Highway Administration plans to raise two sections of the road at the Route 178 interchange and Huntwood Drive early this summer with over 3,000 tons of new blacktop. Couple that with even more work on the county and city side, and drivers will be facing a lot of lane closures and dodging orange traffic cones. But come fall, the hope is that all the work will translate into better access and smoother travel.
Additional projects are in the planning stages and have start dates in the fall.
The final plan for the Route 450 work won't be set until after a public meeting on the project May 15 at the state Department of Agriculture. The work will take about two weeks to complete once it begins, as soon as next month. The additional work will raise that part of the highway and a section at Route 178 a total of 2 feet. Ongoing removal of traffic lights at Canine Road, Samford Road and Route 198 on Route 32 in west county. Ongoing construction of a new traffic pattern, including a new traffic signal, at Route 2 and Tarragon Lane in Gingerville.