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Western Boulevard and its connections with the Raleigh Beltline will be closed this weekend, as contractors work on getting the interchange into its final form.<\/p>\n

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Western and all the ramps to and from Interstate 440 are scheduled to close at 8 p.m. Friday and not reopen until 5 a.m. Monday, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n

Detours will direct Beltline drivers to the next exit \u2014 Melbourne Road for those going westbound and Hillsborough Street for those headed east.<\/p>\n

The construction work at Western is part of a much larger project to widen I-440 to six lanes<\/a> between Wade Avenue in Raleigh and I-40 in Cary. Started in 2019, the widening is complete, but contractors are still doing final paving and other work at the Western, Hillsborough and Wade interchanges, which were all reconfigured and rebuilt.<\/p>\n

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The Western Boulevard interchange became the Triangle\u2019s first diverging diamond in 2021. The design involves crisscrossing traffic<\/a> at either end of the underpass under the highway in a way that eliminates potentially dangerous left turns and the amount of time drivers spend sitting at red lights.<\/p>\n

The diverging diamond was initially established with orange and white barrels. This weekend\u2019s closure will allow contractors to finish putting the interchange into its final traffic pattern.<\/p>\n

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Construction work will also close the exit and entrance ramps at Interstate 440 starting late Friday as NCDOT contractors work on the I-440 widening project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-todays-edition"],"yoast_head":"\nWestern Boulevard will be closed at the Raleigh Beltline this weekend - Durham Moving Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=196\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Western Boulevard will be closed at the Raleigh Beltline this weekend - 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