"Unbelievable.” That’s how S.T. Wooten Corp.’s heavy highway project manager Matthew Davis characterizes the daily crush of more than 106,000 vehicles along a 13-mile stretch of Interstate 40 outside of Raleigh. And it’s the main reason why his company is in the midst of a four-year, $360-million design-build corridor upgrade that will add two travel lanes in each direction, 15 new and revamped bridges, and two diverging-diamond interchanges.
Davis adds that not even a pandemic-altered economy offered much of a respite for the project, which got underway in fall 2018.