2026-09-09 - Transportation Committee

Summary

Short meeting (about three minutes), written from auto-captions with no speaker labels. Minutes were approved, then Chuck George gave the High Point area transportation (MPO) report: local project scoring votes were held in recent weeks and Thomasville did not rank high; the US 109/64 bridge replacement is about 43 percent complete; the NC Railroad and Norfolk Southern freight separation at Turner Street (a bridge from Liberty to Turner) is in planning with engineers; the Fisher Ferry bridge replacement has a let date of May 26 (year not stated, captions say it would begin "next May") with progress on the CSX railroad issue; a bridge toward Caney Road was part of the voting; and the left-turn improvement on US 109 is slated for July 2029. There were no questions and the meeting adjourned. The city's upload for this meeting is labeled part 2 of a "Transportation Committee Meeting"; part 1 of that title actually holds the Public Safety Committee (2026-09-09 - Public Safety Committee). (Fisher Ferry and Holly Hill Signal Removal covers the related Fisher Ferry bridge project.)

Source: auto-caption transcript of the YouTube upload titled "Transportation Committee Meeting, Wednesday, September 9, 2026" (part 2).

Issues discussed: Fisher Ferry and Holly Hill Signal Removal

Transcript

These are auto-generated YouTube captions with no speaker labels, so names and numbers are likely misheard.

Transcript

00:00minutes long and I see it.

00:15>> Okay, we're good to go.

00:17>> I'll let the call to order our

00:18Transportation Committee meeting. Our

00:20first order of business is approval of

00:22the minutes.

00:24>> So moved.

00:25>> I'll second.

00:27Uh

00:29the HPU

00:30agency report from Chuck George.

00:42>> Are there any gifts?

00:44Uh the High Point Transportation uh

00:46uh in High Point we met uh last week our

00:49last couple weeks uh for voting of

00:51projects in our area. So the hopefully

00:55we'll get some of those funded soon. We

00:56didn't come too high up on the chart but

00:59uh once get those results back we'll

01:01share that with you. Uh as the projects

01:03we do have out here that's uh kind of

01:05ongoing we got the bridge replacement

01:07out here at 109/64.

01:09They consider that 43% completed. Uh

01:12also we got the uh North Carolina

01:14Railroad and Norfolk Southern freight

01:16separation at Turner Street. That's uh

01:19we'll work with the work with the

01:20engineers right now coming up plans. We

01:22have met with them a few times. Uh

01:24hopefully to get that funded so we could

01:26bridge over uh

01:28Liberty to Turner

01:30at a future date.

01:31And then also

01:33uh

01:33on Fisher Ferry the bridge replacement

01:35there I was talking to the uh district

01:37engineer and so right now the let date

01:40is May 26th. They may have made some

01:42headways with North not North uh CSX

01:46Railroad on that project so hopefully

01:48that'll

01:49>> Talk about that when we're talking about

01:50the CSX.

01:51>> Right there at Plant B correct. So

01:52hopefully that will will begin next May.

01:55And then uh also that was part of the

01:57voting process with uh trying to get a

02:01bridge over to Caney Road.

02:03So, hopefully that went well as well,

02:05but the improvement there on

02:08109 where you make your left turn and go

02:10back down the other way. The latest July

02:122029.

02:15Any other questions?

02:17All right.

02:18Thank you.

02:19>> Do we have any additions or updates?

02:23>> I have a motion to adjourn.

02:25>> So moved.

02:25>> I second and we are done.

02:54>> Thank you very much.

02:56>> I'm glad you were smart and voted.

02:59>> I did.

03:00>> I'm smart

03:01today. Smart.

03:02>> Be prepared.

03:03>> Be prepared.

03:05>> Okay.

03:07>> All right.