Old Fayetteville Road in Carrboro was briefly closed down after a Google Fiber contractor struck a gas line on Monday morning during construction.

A release from the Town of Carrboro announced the road was shut down between West Poplar and Jones Ferry Roads just before 11 a.m. The statement also said residents of Autumn Woods Apartments along that stretch of Old Fayetteville Road have been evacuated to a separate building while the crews work to resolve the issue. The stretch was reopened after nearly an hour of closure and Autumn Woods residents were allowed to return to the complex.

Construction of Google Fiber led to a different gas line being struck on Thursday December 5. The town announced Stratford Drive had to be closed between Tramore Drive and Autumn Drive after a gas line was hit while directional underground boring was taking place to place conduit under the ground for fiber optics. The road was reopened approximately three hours later.

Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle recently spoke with WCHL’s Aaron Keck about the construction. She encouraged residents to keep an eye out for door hangers the contractor leaves at houses.

“If they’re going to do work in your neighborhood, they are supposed to put up door hangers on all of the doors 72 hours ahead of time so you know they’re going to be there,” said Lavelle. “The hanger has a number to call in case of an emergency. If I worked from home and I knew they were coming through, maybe I would get out of there [for the day].”

There is no date for when Google Fiber based services will be available in Carrboro but Lavelle urged residents to be patient with the construction.

“We are really excited to have Google Fiber coming to our area,” she said, “but we just have a little bit of growing pain with it as it gets installed.”

Construction of the high-speed network system began in Carrboro on December 2 and is expected to take nearly two years to complete. A map of where Google Fiber will conduct construction for the project can be found on Carrboro’s town website.

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