Raleigh paving project on portion of Glenwood Avenue starts Sunday, to last through summer

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Starting Sunday, a more than two-mile stretch of Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh is getting a face lift.

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It’s a part of a nearly four million dollar milling, paving, and striping project from Woman’s Club Drive to Wade Avenue.

Work starts on Sunday, June 28. It will be done from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., with the project expected to be completed by the end of the summer.

At least one to two lanes, depending on the part of Glenwood Avenue, will remain open, with one exception. The Five Points Intersection is expected to close the nights of July 12, 13, and 14, although those dates could change.

NCDOT will have employees help reroute drivers through a detour.

“The complications of dealing with a busy road on any project is not inconveniencing the drivers,” NCDOT Division Five Public Information Officer Kim Deaner said. “We have to go to great lengths to finish a project on time, but also inconvenience the public as little as possible. That probably is one of the biggest obstacles.”

According to Deaner, people can find updates on the department’s public input page.

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“We’re also working very closely with the City of Raleigh,” she said. “They’re making sure we have people who use the bus stops along this route know when we’re going to be there.”

Neil Puley, who has owned Five Points Service Center for more than four years, told CBS 17 he’s happy the intersection along Glenwood Avenue is getting a summer makeover.

“I don’t live in this area, but I’ve been in this area long enough to know that obviously there’s safety concerns because of the amount of congestion and traffic that we’re having in the city,” Puley said.

“I think it’s great,” he said. “I hate to use an old phrase, but [it’s] our tax dollars at work. We’re getting some kind of return on something that we obviously need.”

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