An exit ramp off of a Craven County highway will be closed for two days so the N. C. Department of Transportation can improve pavement. The exit ramp at Clarks Road from U. S. 70 East will be closed from 6:30 a. m. Thursday and will reopen at 7 p. m. Friday. These dates are weather permitting. During the closure, NCDOT will remove the top 2. 5 inches of existing asphalt and replace it with new asphalt. Motorists on Hwy. 70 East wanting to access Clarks Road will continue about a mile to N. C.

The N. C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting in late July on a proposed project to improve two intersections in Onslow County. The project aims to address safety issues at the U. S. 17 / N. C. 172 (Sneads Ferry Road) and U. S. 17 / Old Folkstone Road intersections in Holly Ridge. The design of the project also provides a new route to connect Sneads Ferry Road and Old Folkstone Road. Maps of the proposal area can be found at the NCDOT Public Meetings website.

A Lenoir County road will close for several day as part of construction to connect N. C. 58 to N. C. 11 continues. Ferrell Road will be closed between Savannah School Road and Hamilton Road between 7 a. m. July 22 and 5 p. m. July 26. During the closure, N. C. Department of Transportation contract crews will set concrete bridge girders for the C. F. Harvey Parkway project. Northbound traffic will be detoured onto Tilghman Mill Road, Wallace Family Road and Cameron Langston Road.

Part of a Beaufort County road will be closed for the next several months while contract crews replace a bridge. The North Carolina Department of Transportation says Gray Road will be closed just south N. C. 33 while crews with S. T. Wooten replace a bridge between Maple Court and Benjamin Road in Chocowinity. The road will close July 22 and officials say the project is expected to take 240 days.

A Craven County highway ramp will be closed this weekend as the N. C. Department of Transportation continues work to upgrade the highway to interstate standards. The U. S. 70 Westbound exit ramp to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard will be closed from 6:30 a. m. July 13 through 7 p. m. July 14. These dates are weather permitting. During the closure, NCDOT will remove the top 2. 5 inches of existing asphalt and replace it with 2. 5 inches of new asphalt.

A major traffic change is coming to a street in the Uptown district of Greenville. It's due in part to the construction relating to the Town Creek Culvert project. Work will begin this week to convert the portion of Cotanche Street between East Fifth Street and Reade Circle from one- to two-way traffic. This change is expected to go live on Friday. This change is being made to offset the coming closure of the intersection of Reade Circle and Evans Street, the city said in a press release.

NEWPORT – Turn lanes at a Carteret County intersection will be closed a few days next week while the pedestrian crossings are upgraded. Between 7 p. m. July 8 and 6 a. m. July 9, the left turn lanes in both directions of U. S. 70 at the Roberts Road intersection will be closed. Following that work, between 7 p. m. July 9 and 6 a. m. July 10, the right turn lanes in both directions of U. S. 70 at the Roberts Road intersection will be closed. N. C.

HAVELOCK – Starting Monday, the N. C. Department of Transportation plans to close lanes on U. S. 70 as work continues to complete the overpass across the highway into Slocum Gate, the main access to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. From July 8 through Sept. 20, east and westbound lanes will close overnight on U. S. 70 in Havelock. Lanes can be closed every night of the week, but crews are restricted to work between 8 p. m. and 4 a. m.