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APEX, N.C. — If you are one of the tens of bags of RTP commuters who use awash U.S. 1 North to get to chock-full I-40, there is some abatement in sight. Department of Transportation crews started addition Highway 55 from U.S. 1 to the esplanade four years ago.

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The abstraction is to accord RTP commuters addition advantage by addition Highway 55 all the way up to the park. They started alive on that advantage in 2002. After years of negotiating barrels, barriers and backhoes, abounding drivers sum it up as a nightmare.

Weather, affective utilities, and architect conflicts accept all slowed the work, but DOT engineers now say the end is near. They apprehend achievement by November.

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That can't appear too anon for businesses like Carpenter Texaco. For about a month, the assignment blocked alley admission to the store.

“That absolutely aching me,” said buyer Billy Barham. “That agape out about $2,000 a day in business.”

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Even back the activity is finished, there's a botheration appropriate in the middle. There are no accepted affairs to widen Highway 55 through abundant of Apex, because of the CSX Railroad bridge in town. Alley engineers say there are a cardinal of affidavit they can't widen the alley there. The bridge is historically different and preservationists appetite to save it. Also, CSX Railroad doesn't appetite to agitate alternation traffic, and replacing it would be actual expensive.

“That area of Highway 55 through our accumulated banned does actualize a cartage bottleneck, and one that apropos us greatly,” said Apex Boondocks Manager Bruce Radford.

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So attending advanced to November, Highway 55 commuters, but additionally bethink that until there's a new plan, or a lot of new money, there'll be the aforementioned old jams through Apex.

The November achievement date puts the activity six months abaft agenda and will amount taxpayers about $60 million.

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