FAYETTEVILLE — People living on Fayetteville’s west side will have a chance Thursday to review and comment on plans to widen and extend Rupple Road.
A public session is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Boys & Girls Club of Fayetteville, 560 N. Rupple Road.
The project will be designed and built in four segments:
Extending Rupple Road about 1.5 miles from where it dead-ends at Owl Creek School to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Widening Rupple to four lanes between Persimmon Street and Wedington Drive
Widening Rupple from Wedington north to Starry Night View
Realigning the southern end of Rupple’s intersection with Mount Comfort Road
Preliminary designs call for a roundabout at Rupple and Persimmon, landscaped medians, sidewalks and a 12-foot-wide pedestrian path on the west side of Rupple.
The more than $14 million project is being paid for, in part, through the Transportation Improvement Bond Program voters approved in 2006.
For more information, call Chris Brown, city engineer, at 479-575-8207, or send email to [email protected].
Input Sought On Possible Library Expansion
FAYETTEVILE — Residents are invited to two more public sessions to discuss an expansion of the Fayetteville Public Library.
The public meetings are scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Sunday and 5:30 p.m. Monday in the library’s Walker Community Room.
Library administrators say they need more programming space, material storage, study rooms and meeting rooms. Ideas have included expanding the library’s at 401 W. Mountain St., using the former city hospital property just south of the library or building a branch elsewhere.
For more information, call 479-856-7000.
Work To Slow
North Street Traffic
FAYETTEVILLE — Construction of a recycling drop-off is expected to close the outer, eastbound lane of North Street between Leverett and Gregg avenues for four days this week.
Beginning today, transportation crews will be upgrading a driveway and building a stretch of sidewalk between Leverett and the Scull Creek Trail, according to a news release. Work is expected to finish Friday.
For more information, call 479-575-8228.
— Staff Report