US-74 Shelby Bypass (Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro: lawsuits, bill, beach)

[Carolina Knight]

Originally Posted by southbound_295

The first segment is from the Mecklenburg line to exit 19, reworking the exit from I 85 to 321 northbound. Second is from exit 19 to exit 10. All will be 8 lanes. south of exit 10 will be 6 lanes. I think that they'll have to rework exit 10.

Interstate 85 exit 10, the United States Route 74/United States Route 29 north exit, will need to be completely rebuilt indeed.

[Slay The Great]

Like I-85 would have eight general purpose lanes and four managed lanes. That's what they are planning to do on I-77 in Charlotte.

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by Slay The Great

Like I-85 would have eight general purpose lanes and four managed lanes. That's what they are planning to do on I-77 in Charlotte.

No. Do you even live in or near Charlotte?

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

Interstate 85 exit 10, the United States Route 74/United States Route 29 north exit, will need to be completely rebuilt indeed.

I don't think that they can get the extra lanes under the US 74 overpass.

[Slay The Great]

Originally Posted by southbound_295

No. Do you even live in or near Charlotte?

Nope, I live in Greenville, NC.

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by Slay The Great

Nope, I live in Greenville.

Are you just making guesses? If so, say so. I actually live near exit 10.

[Slay The Great]

Originally Posted by southbound_295

Are you just making guesses? If so, say so. I actually live near exit 10.

Yep.

[cjseliga]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

Interstate 85 exit 10, the United States Route 74/United States Route 29 north exit, will need to be completely rebuilt indeed.

I'm sure, back in the day, when the road engineers were designing that interchange, they probably thought, this should work, well now it's a cluster!

[Slay The Great]

6 to 8 lanes will still have congestion, no matter what. So that's why I was asking if they would put express lanes along.

[nicholas_n]

I've never really understood the reasoning behind I-74's alignment. It seems to me that, since bypasses were already planned for Shelby and Monroe, I-74 should have just followed US-74 across the state. Wilmington to Charlotte would be pretty straightforward. Once in Charlotte, I-74 would loop around I-485, then join I-85 and head west past Gastonia. I-74 and I-85 would split at Kings Mountain, and I-74 would follow US-74 through Kings Mountain and Shelby before joining I-26 in Columbus and continuing to Asheville. Charlotte would then have direct interstate access to both Asheville and Wilmington.

I-73 would follow US-220 from Rockingham to Greensboro (then Martinsville? not sure of the plan), and if the state had to have a spur running through Winston-Salem and High Point, it could be derived from either I-77 or I-73 (i.e. I-777 or I-773).

That's just my two cents anyway. I would think that having a bunch of different names (i.e. I-x74 between Charlotte and Rockingham, the inevitable I-x26 between Columbus and Kings Mountain, and the existing I-85 and I-485 sections) for what would essentially be a continuous route would be much more confusing than simply giving it one name.