Traffic congestion on Mc Crimmon / NC 54 - Morrisville causing residents to consider moving out

[Sherifftruman]

Originally Posted by cjseliga

They should have built a ghost bridge over NC-540, so all they would really need to do is build the road part down to McCrimmon, but I guess they didn't have the money. At least they built bridges in the fly-over ramps on NC-147/NC-540 connector, so the extension can go under them.

Actually all the bridges for the Mcrimmon extension are in place at the 540 interchange. The taxpayers paid to build them when it was not a toll road and now they're going to waste.

[cjseliga]

Originally Posted by Sherifftruman

Actually all the bridges for the Mcrimmon extension are in place at the 540 interchange. The taxpayers paid to build them when it was not a toll road and now they're going to waste.

Really? I don't drive on the toll road, but took the free tour of the NC-147 extension before the tolls started and didn't see any huge bridge over NC-540.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8557.../data=!3m1!1e3

You can see the satellite imagine with no "ghost bridge" going over NC-540 at the current end of NC-147. I would assume it's going to be two 3 lane bridges going over NC-540, then under the "holes" in the two fly-over ramps.

Here's a street view from the one fly-over ramp taken in March 2015:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8535...7i13312!8i6656

No bridge over NC-540 yet!

[DPK]

Originally Posted by Sherifftruman

Actually all the bridges for the Mcrimmon extension are in place at the 540 interchange. The taxpayers paid to build them when it was not a toll road and now they're going to waste.

The ramp flyover bridges and stubs exist, but the mainline bridge that would carry NC-147 traffic over NC-540 does not exist. They only built what was really necessary, save for some short stubs of asphalt/concrete.

I threw the below together really quick. The orange errors indicate rough positions of stub roads, ramps, and the NC-147 flyover of NC-150. The giant red X is the missing bridge.