2026-09-09 - Transportation Committee
Summary
Short meeting (about three minutes), written from auto-captions with no speaker labels. Source: the YouTube upload titled "Transportation Committee Meeting, Wednesday, September 9, 2026" (part 2).
Time on topic (from transcript timestamps; approximate, includes side talk):
| Topic | Minutes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Procedure and other | 2 | 50% |
| High Point area transportation (MPO) report | 2 | 50% |
- 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). Minutes were approved.
- There were no questions and the meeting adjourned.
High Point area transportation (MPO) report
00:44-02:17
- Chuck George gave the 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. Fisher Ferry and Holly Hill Signal Removal covers the related Fisher Ferry bridge project.
- A bridge toward Caney Road was part of the voting.
- The left-turn improvement on US 109 is slated for July 2029.
Sources
- Video: https://youtu.be/wZ6l8pU3RoA
Video
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.