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[cowboy_wilhelm]

The Wadesboro bypass is approved and in the 2009-2015 STIP, but is not currently funded.

NCDOT Project Search - R-4441 (Wadesboro bypass)

NCDOT Division 10 STIP

The final link in making U.S. 74 a complete freeway between Asheville and Charlotte - the Shelby bypass - should begin construction in 2012.

NCDOT Project Search - R-2707 (Shelby bypass)

NCDOT Division 12 STIP

Edited by cowboy_wilhelm, 07 October 2009 - 09:23 PM.

[DCMetroRaleigh]

Thanks for the links, guys. I didn't know about the Shelby bypass. The Wadesboro bypass should be extended far to the east to link with the Rockingham Bypass.

[Alias]

The speed limit has been upgraded to 60mph east of Lilesville to Richmond County within the last year or so.

[RiverwoodCLT]

US74 is 4 lanes from Charlotte to Wilmington now. US74 in now open as a freeway in Roberson County to I95. From Lumberton,  speed limit is 60 to Whiteville and 65 around Whiteville and 60 to just pass Bolton.  It is much better that it was a year ago.

Edited by RiverwoodCLT, 08 October 2009 - 05:33 PM.

[Spartan]

cowboy_wilhelm, on Oct 7 2009, 11:19 PM, said:

The final link in making U.S. 74 a complete freeway between Asheville and Charlotte - the Shelby bypass - should begin construction in 2012.

You mean the Shelby bypass Bypass.

[cowboy_wilhelm]

RiverwoodCLT, on Oct 8 2009, 07:32 PM, said:

US74 is 4 lanes from Charlotte to Wilmington now. US74 in now open as a freeway in Roberson County to I95. From Lumberton,  speed limit is 60 to Whiteville and 65 around Whiteville and 60 to just pass Bolton.  It is much better that it was a year ago.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the speed limit is 70 around Whiteville.  I remember being surprised seeing it, because I didn't know that a non-interstate highway (especially one without full, interstate-standard shoulders) could have a speed limit that high.

Spartan, on Oct 9 2009, 06:03 PM, said:

You mean the Shelby bypass Bypass.

Yeah . . . don't even get me started on that.

Something interesting about the new Shelby bypass is that it will include a SPUI!  

A bunch of DOT public hearing maps (including the Shelby bypass) can be seen here.

[Jerseyman4]

RiverwoodCLT, on 08 October 2009 - 05:32 PM, said:

US74 is 4 lanes from Charlotte to Wilmington now. US74 in now open as a freeway in Roberson County to I95. From Lumberton,  speed limit is 60 to Whiteville and 65 around Whiteville and 60 to just pass Bolton.  It is much better that it was a year ago.

Highway 74/76 east of the Highway 87 juncture near Rigelwood has been long overdue with the underposted 55mph speed limit. So ridiculous. Now if only all of Highway 17 south of Wilmington to Little River, South Carolina at the state line can be all 60mph.

[NcSc74]

After looking at all these maps and burning up my few remaing brain cells I have to say NCDOT drives me mad sometimes. How this cuurent configuration came about for this interstateI have no clue.

[DCMetroRaleigh]

I know. It is a perverted configuration, at best.

[jednc]

cowboy_wilhelm, on 10 October 2009 - 10:16 AM, said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the speed limit is 70 around Whiteville.  I remember being surprised seeing it, because I didn't know that a non-interstate highway (especially one without full, interstate-standard shoulders) could have a speed limit that high.



Yeah . . . don't even get me started on that.

Something interesting about the new Shelby bypass is that it will include a SPUI!  

A bunch of DOT public hearing maps (including the Shelby bypass) can be seen here.

I'm joining this party late...what is a SPUI?

[go_vertical]

^^ Single Point Urban Interchange.  This is a good option when space is at a premium or when traffic is heavy around a particular interchange.  Basically, instead of the two traffic lights (one on either side of the interstate/highway) you have only one placed on the overpass centered over the highway.  Less stops = less back-ups = improved flow.

[jednc]

go_vertical, on 17 July 2011 - 05:19 PM, said:

^^ Single Point Urban Interchange.  This is a good option when space is at a premium or when traffic is heavy around a particular interchange.  Basically, instead of the two traffic lights (one on either side of the interstate/highway) you have only one placed on the overpass centered over the highway.  Less stops = less back-ups = improved flow.

Thanks for the explanation.