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I would definitely like to see US-1 become an interstate between I-540 and I-85.
Agreed. Except in rush hour, I find it faster from north Raleigh to reach I-85 north of Henderson via US 1 than via Creedmoor. And certainly the four lanes of US 1 are safer than the two lanes of NC 50/65 or Cash Road.
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Originally Posted by LM117
Raleigh will need to push heavily for the interstate designation, though.
I-685? All that's left unless they break the rules by using an odd leading digit.
I-95 bypasses Raleigh because Eastern NC had a lot of political power at the time (heck it still does, it always has), and directed it through the eastern NC cities in an attempt to prop them up economically.
I do think it would reflect better on the state if it went through Raleigh (not through the center like Richmond, but maybe around where the eastern edge of 440 is). Plus it would make the drive to Fayetteville and Richmond significantly shorter coming from Raleigh.
I-685? All that's left unless they break the rules by using an odd leading digit.
Either that or I-640, but I-685 would be the better number for it since it links Raleigh to I-85 North.
I think the only time NCDOT broke the rules is by keeping I-540 once the Knightdale Bypass became I-495 instead changing it to I-640, but they got a waiver from FHWA for it.
I-795 is also keeping it's number once it connects to I-40, but that's because the number was written into law as part of the FAST Act, which designated US-117 between Goldsboro and I-40 as a High Priority Corridor and future interstate.
81. United States Route 117/Interstate Route 795 from United States Route 70 in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, to Interstate Route 40 west of Faison, Sampson County, North Carolina.
Our own commuter and school bus traffic is bad enough as it is. I can't imagine how much gridlock there would be in Raleigh if I-95 ran through here, too. That would be horrible....
I have no issue with driving up US-1 to I-85 to I-95 if I want to travel that way. (Or taking I-40 to I-95 if I need to go south.) Sure that may add a little time to those drives as opposed to a straight-shot freeway route but I'll happily live with that to keep I-95 away from Raleigh.
I think of I-95 as similar to I-81 up through Virginia, or even I-80 across Pennsylvania.
Move the out-of-staters through with as little disruption as possible.
I'm actually glad we were bypassed and believe it has had some impact on the higher crime rates of cities like those off of 95 and 85 vs. Raleigh.
The I-95 corridor in North Carolina has the notorious reputation for facilitating drug supply from Florida on the way to NY, as NC is considered the halfway point.
I'm very happy to keep this out of the Raleigh area.
In the 1950 census, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Durham all were larger than Raleigh by population. That would have been the most recent census when the Interstate Highway System kicked off in 1956. The RTP was formed in 1959. Raleigh shot past Durham by the 1960 census.
I like I-95 right where it is.
So much transient traffic moving up and down the east coast and just passing through would not contribute to Raleigh in any way, other than congestion.
So, we were "bypassed," and fortuitously, IMO, in the long run.
This is very true. A cousin of mine was a victim of a heinous crime in Richmond in the early 90's, and we were told by the detective that because of it's location on I95, Richmond was the first "large" city north of Florida, and therefore became a major distribution point for the transportation of drugs into the NE and MW US. And from that, came huge crime increases.
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