NCDOT to Begin Resurfacing Highway 86 June 1; Overnight Delays Expected

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is scheduled to begin resurfacing a part of North Carolina Highway 86 in Chapel Hill Monday, June 1. The work will take place between the intersections with Estes Drive and Franklin Street, through the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard/South Columbia Street corridor. In a release, the Town of Chapel Hill says the work is expected to wrap up by the end of July.

Motorists who travel through the area should expect overnight delays. Work crews will be active Sunday through Thursday from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. During that time, the NCDOT is asking everyone to drive slowly and carefully through the work zone and to obey all signage.

The Highway 86 work is unrelated to the work currently underway on North Carolina Highway 54 in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, which has been ongoing since January and is expected to last until December. Crews on the Highway 54 project are installing pedestrian infrastructure at key intersections. Elsewhere in Orange County, NCDOT crews are working to replace an aging bridge over the Eno River on Halls Mill Road in Hillsborough. That work, which has closed a portion of Halls Mill Road, is also expected to last until December.

Featured image via Town of Chapel Hill

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