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Educating Women To Excel
February 16,2005
Volume XWII, Issue 17
Bridge constiruction nears completion
. _ photo courtesy otwwv>.cunlmnlalbrid9e.com
Reedy Creek Greenway bridge connects the North Carolina Museum of Art to
Meredith College campus. Project completion is projected for March.
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SYDNEY SIMPSON
Staff Writer
The new section of the
Reedy Creek Greenway that
runs from Meredith College
to the NC Museum of Art
is expected to be completed
sometime in March, Tom
NormanoftheDepartmentOf
Transportation (DOT) said.
Norman, the director of
bicycle and pedestrian trans
portation for the North Caro
lina DOT, said Wednesday
that the “NC DOT and the
City of Raleigh are working
together to provide a paved
trail from Hillsborough Street
to Umstead State Park.”
The new section of the
trail, which runs through
Meredith’s campus, begins
at the comer of Faircloth and
Hillsborough Streets. The
trail goes under Wade. Ave
nue through a tunnel on cam
pus, and then goes over 1-440
and onto museum property.
The 660 foot long Reedy
Creek Greenway Bridge,
CAMPUS-WIDE
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which is under construc
tion, will link the two gre-
enways on both sides of
the Behline, In order to
put the bridge across 1-440,
workers will need to close
the highway for four to six
nights in mid-February.
The part of the greenway
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located on the Meredith cam
pus is estimated to cost $3.8
million, consisting of fed
eral, state, and local dollars.
There are two other phases
of this project. An existing
section of paved trail runs
beside Rocky Branch Creek
on the NCSU campus and
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outlets onto Gorman Street.
Norman said other phases
of trail development on NC-
SU’s campus “will ultimate
ly create a paved trail system
from Pullen Park to Umstead
State Park, where there is al
ready a 13-mile trail system.”
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