The High Point railroad corridor is being spruced up. $2 million is being set aside by the North Carolina Railroad Company to upgrade the embankments and tracks which cut through downtown.
The company is collaborating with the city of High Point and the Norfolk Southern Railway Co. to improve the slopes and drainage in the corridor. It will invest more than $13 million in projects statewide, including funds for the High Point project. Norfolk Southern will provide some money as well.
The High Point Enterprise said the project will stretch from Wrenn Street to the old Downing Street bridge, now a pedestrian crossing, between Washington Street and Kivett Drive in east High Point.
The project covers about three-quarters of a mile, and should take at least two years to complete. According to Keith Pugh, High Point's engineering services director, work could begin late next year or in early 2016. He said that some of the issues with the embankment and base of the railway corridor may date from when the railroad tracks were first lowered in the 1930s.
Pugh added that planning, design and other preliminary engineering on the project could begin next month.
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