CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A project to improve traffic flow and relieve congestion on the campus of West Virginia University has been awarded. According to governor Jim Justice, Bear Contracting LLC will do work funded by the Roads to Prosperity program for $5,478,899.91.
“Thanks to the bold vision of the Governor’s Roads To Prosperity program, we are able to prioritize and expedite projects like this so the people of West Virginia can get where they need to go as quickly and as safely as possible,” said West Virginia Transportation Secretary Jimmy Wriston, P.E. “By using bond monies to pay for these projects, it provides us the financial flexibility to continue funding our unprecedented efforts to maintain the secondary roads all across our great state.”
The half-mile project widens Beechurst Avenue from University Avenue to Campus Drive and realigns the intersection of Beechurst and Campus Drive. The Realignment will require construction of a 240-foot-long retaining wall.
WVDOH is coordinating work with the city of Morgantown and WVU on the realignment of the Campus Drive intersection.
The work is expected to be completed in the spring of 2024.