Henderson County commuters may want to find a new route to travel after crews begin work on a project to, among other things, add turn lanes and widen shoulders along Greenville Highway.
As of Tuesday, from North Highland Lake Road to Lilly Pad Lane, a 30-day detour is in effect in East Flat Rock.
This part of the project will allow contract crews to make culvert and storm drainage improvements.
Drivers will be detoured around the closure using U.S. 176, Shepherd Street and N.C. 225, returning to North Highland Lake Road.
“If they do anything with the road widening at all it’s only gonna make it faster. People fly down this road. It’s already unsafe,” said Dales Auto service advisor, Joe Villanueva.
Once work is done there, crews will close another section of the road for more improvements as part of the $6.7 million project to improve safety and mobility. In all, the entire project is expected to take the next 5 months, lasting until late October.
Highlights of the project – parts of which are in the City of Hendersonville, the Village of Flat Rock, and Henderson County jurisdictions – include the following:
- New left turn lanes at Highland Lake Drive, Highland Park Drive and into the Park at Flat Rock
- An extended right turn into CVS near Quail Cove Lane
- Wider shoulders and larger turn radius onto North Highland Lake Road
- A rock form liner for the King Creek culvert
- Custom colors and paint for concrete, guardrails and signal poles
- Portions of additional sidewalk to be added with provisions for future sidewalk connections
- Relocation of the existing multi-use trail within the Village Park
- Improved railroad crossing.
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