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Also, I-95 has been basically the same road since it was built in 1980, but traffic has increased dramatically, it's not designed to handle truck traffic well and the medians are too small compared to other highways. It's unsafe on many portions too, especially aging bridges that cross it. And while out-of-staters mainly use the route, it doesn't give our state a good image for anyone who has to endure the three-hour drive on it due to its frequent congestion and some tight exits to boot.
If you want to talk about a ‘bad image’, there’s a huge ‘elephant in the room’ literally right off the side of 95 in Cumberland County (larger than the one on High House in Cary);Right between Exits 61 and 65. I think that might be worse than the relative lack of maintenance on I-95.
I don’t agree with it, but I don’t condone destroying private property because you disagree.
Anyway, 95 is old outside of Fayetteville’s section, It needs to be widened, and a couple of exits need to be LIT.They also need to redo a couple of Robeson County exits as well.
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A contract was awarded to repave a stretch of I-95, most of which is in Robeson County. Work to begin next spring and is expected to finish by summer 2020.
Isnt I-95 in NC one of the least travelled portions of the highway? Why is it being widened?
Even if it didn't warrant additional lanes, it must be rebuilt to today's interstate standards which are much more demanding as a lot has evolved since the 1960's when I-95 was built.
The Twin Counties is set to receive more than $300 million in projects, including the recently opened Sunset Avenue Bridge; widening of Wesleyan Boulevard in front of the mall; four lane expansion from Sunset Avenue into Nashville, which is a combination of three projects; work to make U.S. 64 meet Interstate 87 standards; widening Red Oak Road to four lanes; Widening of N.C. 4 to get ready for the big trucks that will be used by the CSX terminal; a complete redo of the entire Gold Rock interchange on I-95; and a double loop to Sunset Avenue and Interstate 95.
Drivers on Interstate 95 in Robeson County will encounter overnight detours next week to allow an N.C. Department of Transportation contractor to replace the riding surface of several bridges.
The Arizona-based prime contractor, The Truesdell Corp., will do the work first on the pair of I-95 bridges, both north and southbound, at exit 31 in St. Pauls. Crews already have milled away the top layer of old concrete, so now they will refurbish the deck with polymer concrete – a newer material that pours and dries faster than previous types of concrete.
For the safety of the crews and the public and to expedite the work, weather permitting they will start with a lane closure at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 11, followed by a detour off the interstate at 9 p.m. so they can spread the new concrete surface. Then, the following night they’ll follow the same procedure for the southbound bridge at the same location.
The detour for exit 31 in both directions is simple: Drivers will get off at the ramp, cross the highway and re-enter the interstate.
Once finished at exit 31, the contractor will work on a pair of bridges just to the south of that exit and a pair of bridges to the north of it, again detouring traffic off one bridge per night. For those bridges which don’t have exits the detours will be spread farther apart along the interstate. Detour details and dates will be announced at DriveNC.gov and on the highway’s electric overhead message signs.
Weather permitting, the crews can complete the work requiring detours on all six bridges by the week of March 18. When they later perform follow-up work on those bridges, there will be no detours – just lane closures overnight. They will not do any work or close the interstate on Friday or Saturday nights.
The rest area/welcome center near the Virginia state line will close beginning March 31 due to renovations. Scheduled reopening is set for December 16.
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