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If I'm understanding this correctly, folks traveling north on Blue Ridge Road who wish to turn west on to Hillsborough street will go under the tracks, turn right at the light and loop back to the Y105/Hillsborough intersection?
Edit: Is Beryl Rd traffic unable to turn directly on to Blue Ridge Rd, as well? I guess that traffic will be directed to Pylon?
NCDOT is holding a public meeting tomorrow to discuss widening I-40 between Lake Wheeler Road and the I-40/440/US-1 interchange, as well as rebuilding that interchange.
I appreciate the effort to declutter the immediate Crossroads area and improve ramp spacing by moving those ramps over to Dillard/Piney Plains, but I'm a little concerned about what the flow is going to look like for that traffic heading to/from Crossroads. Piney Plains/Walnut will be right in/right out, so that Crossroads traffic will have to access US 1 via the Walnut/Dillard intersection (or Meeting Street, which is really just a couple of driveway/plaza access roads pasted together). There's certainly plenty of excess capacity on Dillard at the moment, but you're not exactly getting dumped out right at Crossroads.
Side note: The speed limit on the entire stretch of Walnut from CTC/Ivy Lane through Crossroads/Centrum and beyond has recently been lowered from 45 to 35.
NCDOT is holding a public meeting tomorrow to discuss widening I-40 between Lake Wheeler Road and the I-40/440/US-1 interchange, as well as rebuilding that interchange.
I appreciate the effort to declutter the immediate Crossroads area and improve ramp spacing by moving those ramps over to Dillard/Piney Plains, but I'm a little concerned about what the flow is going to look like for that traffic heading to/from Crossroads. Piney Plains/Walnut will be right in/right out, so that Crossroads traffic will have to access US 1 via the Walnut/Dillard intersection (or Meeting Street, which is really just a couple of driveway/plaza access roads pasted together). There's certainly plenty of excess capacity on Dillard at the moment, but you're not exactly getting dumped out right at Crossroads.
Side note: The speed limit on the entire stretch of Walnut from CTC/Ivy Lane through Crossroads/Centrum and beyond has recently been lowered from 45 to 35.
Yeah, removing the ramo from crossroads toward Raleigh and Eventually RTP is going to make a massive amount of traffic have to hit walnut.
When I looked at the maps, my first reaction too was to ask how somebody is supposed to get out of Crossroads toward Raleigh. Ugh.
They do have a new connection being added off piney plains, but that will force a bunch of people to turn left via meeting st, then turn on Piney plains at the intersection with Dillard. Of course Meeting St is screwed most of the time right now.
The easier way out of Crossroads toward Raleigh would seem to be via Jones Franklin Road to 440 north of 40. I could avoid the whole Walnut-Dillard-Piney Plains mess. Will there be signage to that effect? Dunno.
Last edited by wizard-xyzzy; 03-14-2023 at 12:46 PM..
Yeah, had the same thought: that's a whole lot of traffic to send through Piney Plains / Dillard.
Hope the state doesn't repeat its earlier mistake - remember that the 1/64/40/440 interchange was supposed to be redone along with the 440 widening, but was separated out. Now it's been combined with a different widening :-/
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Originally Posted by Sherifftruman
They do have a new connection being added off piney plains, but that will force a bunch of people to turn left via meeting st, then turn on Piney plains at the intersection with Dillard. Of course Meeting St is screwed most of the time right now.
You can go straight through on Meeting, past Lowe's, and turn right on Dillard which becomes the onramp.
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Originally Posted by wizard-xyzzy
The easier way out of Crossroads toward Raleigh would seem to be via Jones Franklin Road to 440 north of 40.
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