A road in North Raleigh will be closed for the next year, and when it reopens, part of it will be considerably higher than it is now.
St. Albans Drive will be elevated to meet New Hope Church Road where it crosses a set of railroad tracks near Atlantic Avenue.
Contractors for the N.C. Department of Transportation have begun building a bridge to lift New Hope Church up and over the rail line. That entails also raising St. Albans, which will remain closed at New Hope Church while tons of stone and earth are brought to the site…