{"id":23180,"date":"2015-06-18T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=23180"},"modified":"2015-06-18T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:57:37","slug":"tryon-road-realignment-will-continue-through-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2015\/06\/18\/tryon-road-realignment-will-continue-through-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Tryon Road Realignment Will Continue Through 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The realignment of Tryon Road, a project being undertaken by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, will cost a total of $7.8 million dollars, Southwest CAC attendees learned at a meeting held June 8.<\/p>\n

David Moore, an engineer with NCDOT, said the project, U-4432, which began in March of 2015, will likely continue through the end of September, 2017.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Anthony McLeod<\/p>

The Tryon Road Project<\/p><\/div>\n

The project, nearly a mile in length, widens Tryon Rd (SR 1370) from the Norfolk Southern Railroad, near Par Drive to Wilmington Street.\u00a0 The project runs through the Renaissance Park Neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Moore explained that the city of Raleigh is expected to fund a portion of the project, although it will not be voted on as a budget item until July. Once the state completes the bridge work for the project, the city of Raleigh is anticipated to take over completion.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The bridge in question<\/p><\/div>\n

Lane closures for the project, will, from here on out, Moore said, occur only at night. In the fall, traffic will be switched to the new portion of the bridge. The old one will be demolished and construction on a second bridge will begin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project will be a great improvement for the area,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n

Area residents seem to agree, and have created a petition<\/a> in favor of the project.<\/p>\n

Traffic Calming<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tryon Road realignment wasn\u2019t the only transportation-related item discussed at last week\u2019s Southwest CAC meeting, as members also voted in favor of two traffic-calming projects, both on Tryon Road.<\/p>\n

The first was to reduce the speed limit at the bridge involved with the Tryon Road project from 45 to 35.<\/p>\n

The second would add a traffic signal at the intersection of Tryon and Fairway Drive.<\/p>\n

Other Business<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"CityCamp<\/a>

CityCamp NC<\/p>

CityCamp NC<\/p><\/div>\n

Jason Hibbets, a past CAC Chair and the current co-chair for CityCampNC, made a brief presentation to the Southwest CAC on plans for CityCamp\u2019s upcoming \u201cUNConference,\u201d which was held the weekend of June 12.<\/p>\n

The philosophy of the progam, Hibbets said, is an \u201copen government community focused on collaboration, participation, and transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCityCamp is an un-conference focused on innovation for municipal governments and community organizations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCityCamp is not programmed for a passive audience.\u00a0 Instead, content is created and organized by participants and coordinated by facilitators.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticipants are in exchange geared toward action.\u201d This provides an excellent format for creative, open exchange geared toward action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Southwest CAC heard presentations on an NCDOT road improvements project and an “unconference” called CityCamp that focuses on local government innovation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24005,"featured_media":23184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1837,1748,261,1833,1493,1836,1834,1835,1832],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}