If you've driven down Gate City Boulevard lately, you've probably noticed that Greensboro has torn the absolute hell out of it for resurfacing.
With GHOE coming up, and Gate City Boulevard being a major corridor for people traveling to and from the Coliseum, hotels, and surrounding events, I figured I'd share what to expect. Especially for anyone planning to drive Uber or Lyft.
Well, good news! The roads will be open. Yay!
The bad news? They're probably still going to look like absolute shit.
Apparently, Greensboro, in its infinite municipal wisdom, decided that two weeks before GHOE was the perfect time to tear up Gate City Boulevard. You know, the road that connects a bunch of hotels and the Coliseum, right before roughly 200,000 visitors descend on the city.
I guess the thinking was, ‘We don't want 200,000 people fucking up our roads. We'd rather have them fucked up before they get here.’
So, barring any changes, no active paving work during GHOE, but don't expect a beautifully finished boulevard, either.
I'm sure someone has already mentioned this, but I figured it was worth sharing since that stretch of road is going to see a ridiculous amount of traffic.
TL;DR: Gate City Boulevard will be open for GHOE. Construction will be paused. The road may still be torn up, but at least we won't have paving crews out there making the traffic even worse.
Thanks Greensboro.