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Several weeks ago, diamondshaped signs covered in black plastic appeared along N.C. 150 West in Oak Ridge, and are located along either side of the highway all the way to the Forsyth County line.
What are the signs for – and if this is for an upcoming road project, wouldn’t it have made more sense to do it before school started back this year? Bobby Norris, a district engineer with North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT)’s Division 7 in Greensboro, told us the signs you see covered in plastic will be used to alert drivers
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Although these diamond-shaped signs were covered in plastic and placed along N.C. 150 in Oak Ridge several weeks ago, they won’t be used to alert drivers of an upcoming road project until later next year, when a 3.17-mile segment of the highway is scheduled to be repaved and widened.
that a road repaving and widening project is scheduled for a 3.17-mile segment of N.C. 150 that runs from the Forsyth County line to 962 feet east of Linville Road.
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However, the project is not expected to get underway until late next spring, and especially in the area closest to Oak Ridge Elementary School, not before the current school
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