THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, May 24, 1996 TAG: 9605240546
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
LENGTH: 27 lines
Road-building equipment will be kept off N.C. 168 from the Virginia state line to Barco in Currituck County during the Memorial Day weekend, a North Carolina Department of Transportation engineer said Thursday.
The highway is a main thoroughfare from Hampton Roads to the Outer Banks resorts, and North Carolina is widening the stretch north of Barco to four lanes. South of Barco the highway is four lanes, and is carried over the Currituck Sound to Kitty Hawk on two two-lane bridges.
``Beginning Friday, the contractor on the N.C.-168 widening project will keep his work crews off the highway until Tuesday morning,'' said Thomas E. Brite, resident engineer for the DOT.
Much of the construction work on the road is in the Moyock area.
In Virginia, the road remains a two-lane bottleneck that has frustrated tourists and Chesapeake residents for years.
When the N.C. 168 widening is completed, a four- to five-lane highway will carry traffic from the Virginia line to the Wright Memorial Bridge over the Currituck.
Maintenance work on the old Wright span to Kitty Hawk has been completed, and both spans are open to traffic. by CNB