If you were unlucky enough to attempt to navigate down East Cornwallis Drive last week to get to Golden Gate Shopping Center, you likely encountered a whole lot of road work that forced you to take a strange path to your destination – and the city has announced that, this week, there will be a lot more of that type of work going on, so you might want to allow some extra time to get where you’re going.
Drivers in Greensboro can expect to see a lot of lane closures and detours across a long list of city streets this week as the City of Greensboro continues its annual paving program.
According to city officials, streets in multiple parts of Greensboro will undergo paving, milling, raising structures and lowering structures from Monday, April 13, through Friday, April 17.
The work is part of the city’s 2026 road paving projects, which are announced on a weekly basis.
Most of the work is scheduled to take place from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will involve alternate lane closures – or, in some cases, full road closures.
Another pair of projects will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
However, the long list of streets doesn’t mean crews will be working everywhere at once – or that every project will be completed by the end of the week.
The city notes that the work involves “various stages of resurfacing,” and, in practice, that means crews typically move from street to street performing different steps such as lowering or raising structures, milling the old surface, and then paving.
As a result, some streets may see only part of the work completed this week, while others could carry over into the following week depending on weather and equipment availability.
When you see “raising and lowering structures” in a city paving notice, it basically means crews are making sure all those metal covers and utility access points sit perfectly even with the road when they’re done – not sticking up or sinking down.
Among the streets scheduled for paving are Brushy Creek Drive from Silverbrook Drive to Woodhollow Road; Crystal Hill Court; New Market Court; Oakville Drive; Silverbrook Court; Silverbrook Drive from McLeansville Road to Taylors Landing Avenue; Woodhollow Court; Woodhollow Road; Huff Street from Huffine Mill Road to Lynn Road; London Road from Twain Road to Whitman Road; Lynn Road from Penry Road to the end; Morley Road from Twain Road to Whitman Road; Oneill Place from Morley Road to Whitman Road; Orange Street from Twain Road to East Cone Boulevard; Twain Road from Summit Avenue to North O. Henry Boulevard Service Road; and Whitman Road from Orange Street to Twain Road.
Other streets are set for milling and raising structures, including Bradford Street from State Street to Palm Street; Palm Street from State Street to Golden Gate Drive; Avery Place from Pembroke Road to Fairway Drive; Benjamin Parkway from West Wendover Avenue to Westmoreland Drive; Fairway Drive from Benjamin Parkway to Pembroke Road; Pinecrest Road from Ridgeway Drive to West Greenway Drive North; Ridgeway Drive from West Friendly Avenue to West Market Street; Scott Avenue from Camden Road to the end; West Friendly Avenue from Green Valley Road to North Holden Road; and Wright Avenue from South Elam Avenue to South Josephine Boyd Street.
The city also notes that crews will be lowering structures on East Montcastle Drive from South Elm-Eugene Street to Bracken Lake Way, as well as on Hyalyn Court, Prestwood Court, Zornbrook Drive, Charity Court, Hope Valley Lane, Kelly Court, Kelly Road, Mandela Court, and McConnell Road from South Benbow Road to South English Street.
Two additional projects are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: paving on North English Street from East Wendover Avenue to Phillips Avenue, and milling and raising structures on East Cornwallis Drive from North Church Street to North Elm Street.
City officials are asking motorists to use alternate routes when possible, follow detour signs, and obey traffic flaggers in work zones.
Scott , you made me laugh again! ” raising and lowering structures”. I hope the city has learned how to make roads smooth once paved. Most manhole covers sit way below road grade on any given street. Be careful while driving on these roads as they are engineered pot holes! If you have false teeth add more glue, if you have hemroids, take your donut and by all means have a lifetime realignment warranty. Also, the patch jobs sit a few inches higher than road grade level.
Happy Motoring!
They will leave the structures one inch above grade on Dolley Madison, and the railroad crossing 2 inches above grade on Summit between Pisgah Church and Cone, just for sh1ts and giggles.