Cleek Road to close three months for intersection reconstruction
KINGSPORT – Cleek Road between Orebank Road and Stone Drive will be closed to traffic beginning Monday, August 30, 2010 and remain closed for the next 90 days.
The closure will accommodate the upcoming realignment and reconstruction of the Stone Drive/Cleek Road intersection, with work having already begun on the Cleek Road side of the intersection and New Beasonwell Road on the opposite side of the intersection.
The project will widen approach lanes at both New Beasonwell and Cleek, allowing for the separation of left, thru and right turn lanes. The project will also add a left turn lane onto Cleek Road from Stone Drive, and adding stacking depth extend the eastbound left turn lane from Stone onto Beasonwell, adding traffic stacking depth.
In all, the project improves approximately 500 feet of New Beasonwell Road and 770 feet of Cleek Road.
A future, second phase of the project will reconstruct Cleek from the new intersection all the way up to Orebank Road.