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There are 22 Interstate Highways—9 primary and 13 auxiliary—that exist entirely or partially in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of January 2020, the state had a total of 1,410 miles (2,270 km) of Interstates and 70 miles (110 km) of Interstate business routes, all maintained by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).
The Division of Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation (DBPT) is a division for Bicycles and pedestrian traffic. Some notable things the division does is designing facilities, creating safety programs, mapping cross-state bicycle routes, training teachers, sponsoring workshops and conferences, fostering multi-modal planning or integrating bicycling and walking into other projects by the ...
In July 2023, NCDOT proposed creating a gap-in-route by renumbering a 10-mile section of NC 42 into NC 36, in Johnston County. The rationale is that it will eliminate confusion by those in the area between it and Interstate 42. [7] NCDOT requested public input on this proposal at an open house on October 12, 2023. [8]
According to NCDOT, the secondary road (SR) system of the state "consists of those roads maintained by the Department of Transportation that do not carry 'NC' or 'US' numbers and are outside the boundary of any incorporated municipality." [5]
The North Carolina Turnpike Authority was established on October 3, 2002, by ratification of House Bill 644 (S.L. 2002-133) and signed by Governor Mike Easley. [1] In its original draft, the authority was independent and only able to establish the first three projects in the following conditions: one project located in whole or in part in a county with a population equal to or greater than ...
When originally established in the 1920s, the state highway system was highly organized: two-digit routes ending in "0" were major cross-state routes, other two digit routes were numbered as spurs off of the main route (that is, Highway 54 would have been a spur off of Highway 50) and lesser important routes were given three digit numbers by appending an extra "ones" digit to the two digit ...
The project is part of a larger plan by NCDOT to convert US 221 between the South Carolina state line and I-40 near Marion to a four-lane divided highway. [24] The Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was approved on May 26, 2011. [25] NCDOT selected Alternate 3 for the alignment of the highway, designated as "Project R-2233B". [26]
North Carolina Highway 751 (NC 751) is a north–south state road in North Carolina that runs from U.S. Route 64 (US 64) near Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, to US 70 Business near Durham.