Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg in Durham Tuesday to tour Holloway Street safety project

A plan is in the works to make Durham's streets safer for pedestrians. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will be in town Tuesday to take a look at how a federal grant will be used for the project.
Posted 7/2/2024, 11:00:26 AM Updated 7/2/2024, 10:07:51 PM

COURT DATE SCHEDULED FOR JULY

AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.

>> A BUSY AND AT TIMES

DANGEROUS STREET IN DURHAM IS

GETTING MAJOR UPGRADES WERE

TALKING ABOUT THIS 3 MILE

STRETCH OF HOLLOWAY STREET ON

THE EAST SIDE OF DOWNTOWN.

THE BULL CITY JUST RECEIVED A

12 MILLION DOLLAR FEDERAL GRANT

TO IMPROVE SIDEWALKS,

CROSSWALKS BUS STOPS AND MORE

WRAL'S. MONICA CASEY WAS THERE

AS THE U.S. TRANSPORTATION

SECRETARY. PETE BUTTIGIEG TOOK

A TOUR OF THAT CORRIDOR TO THAT

MONICA.

>> WELL, ACCORDING TO NC DOT

HOLLOWAY STREET HAS A FATAL

CRASH RATE 6 TIMES HIGHER THAN

THE NATIONAL AVERAGE FOR

SIMILARLY DESIGNED ROADS.

A BIG PART OF THIS GRANT WILL

ALSO GO TOWARD THAT S TREE AND

SAFETY TURNING DIRT PADS LIKE

THIS ONE INTO PAVED SIDEWALKS.

>> WHEN THE DRUMS MAIN

THOROUGHFARES IS GETTING A

FACELIFT, 12 MILLION DOLLARS

WORTH OF IMPROVEMENTS. 33

INTERSECTIONS OVER ABOUT 3

MILES OF HOLLOWAY STREET WILL

GET NEW ADA

CURB RAMPS, CROSSWALKS

SIDEWALKS AND UPGRADES TO BUST

FACILITIES

BETWEEN 2017 2021, THERE WERE

46 PEDESTRIAN CRASHES IN THIS

STRETCH OF HOLLOWAY STREET.

3 PEOPLE DIED AND FOR

PEDESTRIANS HAD SERIOUS

INJURIES.

>> BARBERSHOP SITS IN THE

MIDDLE OF THAT STRETCH. DEREK

SEGERS GREAT-UNCLE TIME AND

OPENED THE SHOP IN 1947, THE

BUSINESS MOVED FROM PETTIGREW

TO MAIN STREET AND IN 1999, TO

HOLLOWAY'S STREET, A HARLEM

APARTMENT FOR STEP 2.

>> VERY GREAT MAN. DENIS SEGERS

YOU KNOW, I LOVE THEM AND I

WANT TO JUST BE LIKE FAR TOO

MANY CUSTOMERS RIDE. THE BUS

WILL BENEFIT FROM NEW BENCHES

AND SHELTERS AT THE NEARBY

STOP. WHEN IT'S HOT.

>> WINDY SAY THEY'RE WAITING ON

THE BUS. SEGERS TELLS ME

SIDEWALKS ARE ALSO IMPORTANT

FOR THAT AREA BECAUSE SOME

PEOPLE MAY HAVE LIKE MAYBE

WHEELCHAIRS OR SOMEONE MAY HAVE

WALKERS.

>> AND IF THE PAY OF NOTICE,

THE SIDEWALKS AREN'T DONE AND

THEY CAN'T REALLY GET.

>> TO WHERE THEY NEED TO GET TO

SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION.

PETE BUTTIGIEG, JOINT STATE AND

LOCAL OFFICIALS ON A WALKING

TOUR OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

HE TELLS US THE COMMUNITY

VISION HAS BEEN HERE FOR A LONG

TIME, BUT NOT THE MONEY FOR HER

TO AND THAT'S WHY WE WERE TO

12 MILLION DOLLARS TO HELP GET

THAT DONE. AND I WANT THEM TO

KNOW THAT THERE IS A WHOLE SET

OF PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE TO

SUPPORT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD

SUPPORT. THIS COMMUNITY IS.

>> SECRETARY BUTTIGIEG ALSO

ACKNOWLEDGED THE ISSUE OF

TRUST. HE SAYS IT'S IMPORTANT

THAT PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK

IN THIS AREA HAVE THEIR VOICES

HEARD THROUGHOUT THIS PROJECT

IN DURHAM, MONICA CASEY, WRAL,

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