STEELE CREEK NEWS
New Traffic Signal
at Least Six Weeks Away
(August 16, 2006)
Motorists who line up in the morning on Shopton Road West waiting to
get out onto Steele Creek Road have been anxiously awaiting the new
traffic signal that was announced last spring.
But they still have
to wait about six more weeks. According to the Charlotte Department
of Transportation (CDOT), it
likely will take about four weeks for Duke Energy to set the poles
for the signal and another two weeks for CDOT to install the
equipment. Left turns from northbound Steele Creek Road to Shopton
Road West may be restricted for all or certain time periods during
the day.
This is a
temporary solution to the problems at this intersection. A planned
realignment of Shopton Road West at Steele Creek Road and of Dixie
River Road through Berewick should
be the answer, but this
plan cannot proceed until the
Mecklenburg-Union Metropolitan Planning Organization (MUMPO)
approves it. MUMPO was scheduled to consider the plan at its July
meeting but postponed a decision until September. Construction
should begin in 2007.
Also see the
Dixie River Road Realignment page on the Charlotte
Department of Engineering and Property management web site and the
story Traffic Signal Coming
to Steele Creek Road/Shopton Road West Intersection on this
web site.
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