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million worth of projects in the Triangle. Perdue’sa office revealed that an additional 64 highway and bridgee projects totalingabout $209 million will be funde through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That bringsz the total amount of projects announced to date upto $679 more than 90 percent of the $735 million in recovert money North Carolina has received for highwag and bridge improvements. $1.5 million for bicycle, pedestrian and transity accommodations ona ½ mile stretch of Old Fayetteville Road in Orangw County; • $4.9 million for a signal system in Chapel Hill; • $1.
5 milliobn for bicycle and pedestrian projectes in various parts of Orange County; • $300,000 to help constructf the Morgan Creek Greenway in Chapel • $1.2 million for bridge painting I-440 from Glen Eden to US 1 in Wake • $400,000 to install ITS devices on 16 milesx of I-440 in Wake County; $2.5 million on mill and resurfacing work on three miles of US 264 in Wake • $150,000 for patching and resurfacing work on one mile of Old Page Road in • $900,000 for milling and resurfacing work on the US 501 Bypasxs in Durham; • $350,000 for milling and resurfacing work on Hillandale-Fulton Street in • $13.9 million for widening 2.
2 miles of US 401 in Wake County from Ligon Mill Road to Jonesville • $5.7 million for interchange improvements on I-54p0 and I-40 in Durham and Wake • $110,000 to install a traffic signal on North Salemn Street at the Center Street Intersectionm in Wake County; $2.7 million for bicycle and pedestrian projectws in Wake County; • $4.4 million for bicycld and pedestrian projects in Durham. The projectws announced Friday will be let to contract over the next 12 had already identified about 70 highway and bridge projects to be let to contracft between March and June throughrecovery funding. Elevenh projects totaling $65.
1 million were awarded to contract in According tothe , every $1 milliob spent on transportation creates 30 jobs, and according to the construction industry, every dollard invested in transportation generates $6 in economic Based on these figures, the additional projecta announced Friday are expected to help support more than 6,0009 jobs and contribute nearly $1.3 billion to the economy. the projects announced to date are expected to help create and sustaib morethan 20,000 jobs and generate more than $4 billiojn in economic development.