Press release from City of Asheville:
The construction phase of the Charlotte Street road diet is scheduled to begin in February and continue through May.
The first phase of construction will entail a lane closure as contractors reconstruct portions of the sidewalk on the north end of Charlotte street near Edwin Place. Once complete, repaving of the road will take place at night for approximately four weeks.
Background:
Council allocated $1.25 million for the design and construction of this project. This Capital Improvement Project will include milling and repaving Charlotte Street as well as a 4-to-3 lane conversion from approximately Chestnut Street to Edwin Place. Other components of the project include bike access improvements and spot sidewalk safety improvements.
For more information on this project, please visit Asheville City Source.
While I support road diets in general and even as to applied to Charlotte St., it never should have been an option.
Asheville is alot like a couple making minimum wage and just having to have a granite kitchen countertop even though the roof leaks and needs replacement. Spending 1.25M of taxpayer money on one short section of roadway is not justifiable when you consider how many other roads are in terrible need of repaving. Just repaving Charlotte would have cost perhaps 200K. Instead we blow a million plus. Very poor decision when factoring in the big picture.