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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Wrightsville Beach measures summer traffic volume

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More than 20,000 cars cross the Heide Trask Drawbridge going to Wrightsville Beach on a midsummer Saturday, according to data gathered by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

The NCDOT collected traffic counts every day starting the week before July Fourth and finishing the week after. An email from Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization executive director Mike Kozlosky said Wrightsville Beach Mayor Bill Blair requested the study to determine traffic volumes coming across the bridge between holidays and non-holidays.

The busiest week, according to the data, was July 3–9, when 147,973 cars crossed the drawbridge’s eastbound lanes.

The study not only compared traffic volume by week, it also showed how traffic fluctuated throughout each day by breaking the numbers into 15-minute increments.

Wrightsville Beach last requested a traffic count study several years ago, town manager Tim Owens said. This year’s numbers were similar to those collected during the previous study, he said.

He said the town would use the data to “figure out traffic control and where our resources need to be.”

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