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Old 04-12-2018, 09:02 AM
 
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Indeed, its also about commercial access to the port and GTP, the capital and beyond. None of which can be sacrificed so that businesses on 70 can survive. The growth of the GTP will also support their business.
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Old 04-12-2018, 09:50 AM
 
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Indeed, its also about commercial access to the port and GTP, the capital and beyond. None of which can be sacrificed so that businesses on 70 can survive. The growth of the GTP will also support their business.
The downtown growth in Kinston is actually pretty good. Maybe some of these businesses should consider getting off of 70 and relocating downtown.
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Old 04-12-2018, 11:21 AM
 
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The downtown growth in Kinston is actually pretty good. Maybe some of these businesses should consider getting off of 70 and relocating downtown.
Which kind of make his comments silly because his burger place is in downtown Kinston within 1 block of Chef & the Farmer and Mother Earth Brewing. He's going to be fine. There's a good chance (not wishing it on him) that his burger place won't even be there by the time construction starts in 2025.

I understand his point, but 99.9% of people traveling to/from the beach aren't going to stop today to visit his burger place downtown simply because they're making their way to/from the beach and don't plan on making any stops in between.
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Old 04-12-2018, 01:46 PM
 
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I don’t remember the last time I drove by Mother Earth but the other day I came through Kinston on King Street and turned south on Queen. It definitely does not look like it’s growing. It looks like a war zone.
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Old 04-13-2018, 06:53 AM
 
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I don’t remember the last time I drove by Mother Earth but the other day I came through Kinston on King Street and turned south on Queen. It definitely does not look like it’s growing. It looks like a war zone.
It's really just Heritage St. right now. Outside of that 2-3 block strip the rest of downtown Kinston looks like it's decaying.
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Old 04-13-2018, 07:52 AM
 
Location: Danville, VA
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The US-70 Corridor Commission has finally posted the minutes from their November 15 meeting. The January meeting was pushed back to February 22 due to the snowstorm. The minutes from that meeting have not been posted yet. Next meeting is May 17 in La Grange.

http://www.super70corridor.com/wp-co...ember_2017.pdf

The Director’s Report for January & February also contained this interesting little tidbit:

http://www.super70corridor.com/wp-co...ors-Report.pdf

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February’s focus has been on continuing U.S. 70/I-42 projects: Wilson’s Mills, Pine Level, Princeton, Havelock, Kinston and James City. The large proposed interchange at U.S. 70/I-42 and I-95 has garnered much attention - probably a bit premature to become overly anxious with this project now.
Also, I stumbled across this. The director is pissed.

http://www.super70corridor.com/wp-co...ors-Report.pdf

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The destruction of our towns, cities and the devastating consequences of Hurricane Matthew upon our citizens invited/demanded that we revisit the 1985 report and seek to address downstream flooding. I feel certain Governor Cooper’s Neuse River Flood Abatement Study will explore remedies to minimize future downstream flooding.

It is puzzling and disappointing the U.S. Corps of Engineers chose to destroy the century-old Milburnie Dam - the only stop-gap between Falls Lake and the Pamlico Sound. Despite an expression of concern by many along the Neuse River in Eastern N.C., the dam was destroyed in 2017.

With the destruction of Milburnie Dam, acres of wetlands have been destroyed by the agency charged with the responsibility of protecting wetlands. I have not heard a plausible explanation of why the dam destruction was authorized. Acres of wetlands are gone without re-establishing new replacement wetlands - a requirement for developers and NCDOT.

The only benefit acknowledged is a new source of recreational activity in the Raleigh area - with no barrier to slow the waters and minimize downstream flooding. By all reports, we need more flood control business - not less.
Wow...
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Old 04-13-2018, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Danville, VA
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NCDOT has awarded a contract to mill & resurface I-795 between the Wayne/Wilson county line and US-264.

https://apps.ncdot.gov/newsreleases/...s.aspx?r=15068

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Almost eight miles of Interstate 795 in Wilson will be repaved over the next year.

Fred Smith Co. of Raleigh will mill away the top layer of old asphalt and resurface the freeway and its ramps between the Wilson-Wayne county line and Wiggins Mill Road.

During construction, drivers should expect intermittent lane closures, except for holiday weekends.

Fred Smith received a $5.8 million contract from the N.C. Department of Transportation in March. The company may start work after April 30, and it has until June 2019 to finish.

This was one of 16 road and bridge contracts recently awarded by NCDOT. Per state law, they went to the lowest qualified bidder for each project. The contracts are worth $429.7 million, nearly $39 million under engineer estimates.
The same is currently being done for the stretch between US-70 in Goldsboro and the Wilson County line.

https://connect.ncdot.gov/letting/Ce...%20C204024.pdf

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Old 04-13-2018, 07:32 PM
 
Location: Danville, VA
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Here’s a map of the proposed I-42/I-95 interchange near Selma:

https://jocoreport.com/wp-content/up...nterchnage.pdf

Good luck getting local support for that...
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Old 04-14-2018, 04:05 PM
 
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Here’s a map of the proposed I-42/I-95 interchange near Selma:

https://jocoreport.com/wp-content/up...nterchnage.pdf

Good luck getting local support for that...
Looking at the proposed interchange and the current (or most recent) Google Maps overhead, there's a large "solar farm" right where the new cloverleaf would be going, but it's not on their pdf overlay.

I'm not trying to blame anybody, but the way they (NCDOT) have been upgrading/bypassing US-70 in pieces over the last few decades, sort of lead/caused this situation. If they just created a new interchange/alignment when they put in the US-70 Bypass, this would have already been addressed. Of course it was cheaper, at the time, to do what they did.

That's a lot of exits (4 total) over a short distance on mainline I-95.
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Old 04-14-2018, 10:02 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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Looking at the proposed interchange and the current (or most recent) Google Maps overhead, there's a large "solar farm" right where the new cloverleaf would be going, but it's not on their pdf overlay.

I'm not trying to blame anybody, but the way they (NCDOT) have been upgrading/bypassing US-70 in pieces over the last few decades, sort of lead/caused this situation. If they just created a new interchange/alignment when they put in the US-70 Bypass, this would have already been addressed. Of course it was cheaper, at the time, to do what they did.

That's a lot of exits (4 total) over a short distance on mainline I-95.
What in the world even led to all the different US-70 alignments around 95? There are so many different routes between the regular US-70, Business 70, and Alternate 70, plus the ridiculous interchange with I-95, that I can't even tell where US-70 went originally.
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