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Now Garner is going to insist on following the original route planned for continuing NC 540, joining Holly Springs and Fuquay Varina in their declarations.
Hopefully this will push things along. Indecision is costing the poor folks out that way both time and money.
Ground breaking (wherever) still estimated for 2018.
Is it definite they will decide the entire route all the way to completion in Knightdale or just resolve the red/orange etc. route decision? Fear the decision for the last leg of NC 540 will just be put on the back burner indefinitely. Hoping the limbo will end soon for all those on one of the many NC 540 map routes.
Here is the 2013 map. I thought it was in the article quoted but it disappeared. The 'final' decision by NCDOT looks like it will be presented this fall.
The Orange route seems like the most logical place to go, since it also ties directly to US70 which is getting upgraded to a limited access freeway (Goldsboro bypass should be done next year and the Kinston bypass should start construction within 5-7 years) all the way to Morehead City over the next 20 to 30 years.
What scares me is ...although the orange route seems to make the most sense...when did the people that make the decisions use their common sense?!!
I wish they would make a decision and stick to it. It really does affect those all around this as no one knows where the highway is going and the unknown makes it difficult for anyone who wants to buy or sell their house.
I wish they would make a decision and stick to it. It really does affect those all around this as no one knows where the highway is going and the unknown makes it difficult for anyone who wants to buy or sell their house.
When I first moved to Arizona in the fall of 2001, I was in awe of the forward thinking they had (I realize the topography of the Valley of the Sun is different than NC and a lot younger in development), where they had these huge 200-300 foot ROW set aside to put in their freeways (the 101 and the 202) once the money from the tax they voted for was available, which could have been 5, 10, 15, even 20 years later. You basically knew exactly where the freeway was going and nothing was built there. It was sort of eerie driving from a built up area across the ROW and looking up and down and seeing nothing then having it built up again. Kinda, sorta like a DMZ.
That Orange (but looks more yellow to me) Route seems to be the most reasonable location from a thru-traffic perspective around the south and west side of Raleigh. It would also seem that it doesn't bisect Garner in the way that the Red Route does.
The Orange route seems like the most logical place to go, since it also ties directly to US70 which is getting upgraded to a limited access freeway (Goldsboro bypass should be done next year and the Kinston bypass should start construction within 5-7 years) all the way to Morehead City over the next 20 to 30 years.
I can't wait for this to happen. It would be nice if there was a New Bern to Morehead bypass too and they speed it up to 10 years.
That Orange (but looks more yellow to me) Route seems to be the most reasonable location from a thru-traffic perspective around the south and west side of Raleigh. It would also seem that it doesn't bisect Garner in the way that the Red Route does.
With the Feds forcing the issue of alternate route studies, and the waste of taxpayer funds to accompany those studies, the Red Route was a necessary absurdity prior to finalization of the Orange route.
Let me see...
Destroy a town, one with little political power.
Redundancy. I.e., too close to I-40 for a toll road to be successful.
Through the watershed directly above Lake Benson.
The Red route has almost nothing going for it.
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