Greensboro Streets Face Closures, Lane Restrictions During March 9-13 Paving Projects

Greensboro's annual paving program brought a wave of street closures and lane restrictions across the city during the week of March 9–13, with sections of streets undergoing various stages of resurfacing that affected traffic flow throughout the area.

The most consequential closure of the week was Voss Avenue, shut down from Summit Avenue to Cody Avenue beginning March 9 for a storm culvert replacement project. That closure was not a matter of days: the City of Greensboro announced Voss Avenue would remain closed until July 17, a stretch of more than four months.

North Davie Street also closed March 9, with the city citing a specific reason: demolition of the Davie Street deck. No reopen date was provided in city notices for that closure. On Battleground Avenue, one of the city's busier corridors, lane reductions went into effect March 10, with traffic squeezed to one lane in each direction.

Bellemeade Street had been closed since March 3 and was expected to reopen March 13, the final day of the paving week. West February Place closed March 8 for Duke Energy to complete utility work, adding to the cluster of disruptions around the start of the week.

These jobs are part of the city's 2026 road paving projects, which the city publicizes weekly. Reynolds Place lane closures, which began January 20, were scheduled to run through March 9, meaning that project was wrapping up as the new round of work began.

Commerce Place has been under a road closure since January 12 for a sidewalk improvement project expected to continue through early April. Norfolk Southern railroad work at the South Elm Street crossing began February 23, with no end date provided in city notices.

The City of Greensboro has been managing road work throughout the winter and early spring, a period that also saw the city activate its full emergency snow and ice response plan in January ahead of frozen precipitation and respond to what city communications described as a historic snowfall in early February. Whether winter weather affected the pacing of the 2026 paving program was not addressed in city notices, but the overlap of multiple simultaneous closures across the street network underscored the scale of infrastructure work underway.