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SOUTHPORT – With a section of N.C. Highway 211 washed out during a storm earlier this month, transportation officials ask that drivers use an alternate route.
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation said Thursday that with N.C. 211 closed just north of Southport, heavy traffic volumes have been using N.C. Highway 87 North, otherwise known as River Road, toward Boiling Spring Lakes to leave the area.
Officials said that to adjust for this concentration of traffic, crews have installed message boards along N.C. 211 to alert drivers who are trying to reach U.S. 17 or the Boiling Spring Lakes area to do so by way of N.C. Highway 906 rather than N.C. Highway 133 to N.C. 87.
As part of this traffic remedy, the left turn from N.C. 133 North onto N.C. 87 North closed after peak hours Wednesday morning. The detour has drivers follow N.C. 211 North, N.C. 906 North, U.S. 17 Business North and U.S. 17 North back to N.C. 87.
NCDOT has partnered with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office to remove the closure officials said Thursday, allowing the left turn from N.C. 133 North onto N.C. 87 each evening, until further notice.
The left turn onto N.C. 87 will be closed each day 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Then, between 7 p.m. and 10 a.m., the same left-turn lane will be open to drivers.
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Drivers should factor the alternative route into their trips and be mindful of crews working in the area.
