Work is set to begin Monday on a two-year project to widen part of U.S. 40 in Bear and install a roundabout on Salem Church Road.
The work will focus on a 1.4-mile section of the highway between Salem Church Road and Walther Road. Both sides of the road will be expanded from two lanes to three lanes.
A section of U.S. 40 located east of Walther Road was already widened during an earlier project…