NC Turnpike Authority to install temporary traffic counting devices on US 158 near Duck Woods Drive - The Coastland Times

NC Turnpike Authority to install temporary traffic counting devices on US 158 near Duck Woods Drive - The Coastland Times

The North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) is continuing project development efforts for the Mid-Currituck Bridge Project. To collect up-to-date traffic volumes, NCTA will install traffic counting devices on the overhead sign located on U.S. 158 near the Duck Woods Drive intersection, according to a news release issued Tuesday afternoon, May 20. “The purpose of these devices is to gather traffic data on the number of vehicles entering the Oute…

State to count traffic entering Outer Banks on US 158

The proposed mid-Currituck Bridge project includes a bridge that would span over Currituck Sound from Aydlett to south of Corolla. Map: N.C. Department of Transportation North Carolina Turnpike Authority officials plan to install traffic counting devices along a section of U.S. 158, the only highway crossing the Currituck Sound, as part of the Mid-Currituck Bridge Project. Crews were expected to begin installation at 9 a.m. Wednesday on the over…