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Why is NCDOT interested in local roads?
WashuOtaku:
If you are ever curious of what roads NCDOT maintains, just pull up their county & bridge maps. All the roads listed on it are what NCDOT maintain.
Scott5114:
--- Quote from: architect77 on November 27, 2022, 09:36:33 PM ---I would like to find out how to spearhead independent cleanups, as this holiday season visitors to Raleigh will be greeted by trash-strewn shoulders of the Beltline as well as interchanges with Capital Blvd. etc.
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https://www.ncdot.gov/initiatives-policies/environmental/adoptahighway/Pages/default.aspx
kphoger:
--- Quote from: NJRoadfan on October 12, 2022, 06:57:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: elsmere241 on October 09, 2022, 06:44:43 PM ---Delaware too. I can remember when most rural roads just had county numbers and not names. I know New Castle County made an effort to name roads in the mid-1980s (and assign street addresses where there was rural route and box).
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This was due to the coming of 911 emergency services. Many unnamed roads needed actual names and street signs so EMS could locate people. Sadly many people died when an ambulance couldn't locate where someone on an unnamed (and possibly unmapped) road lived.
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Yeah, the rural roads in the Kansas county I grew up in were unnamed as long as I lived there. They got names or numbers sometime after 2000 in the interest of emergency response. And this is definitely not a state where the DOT is responsible for most roads.
tjcreasy:
North Carolina has the second highest rural population in the US, another reason why the current DOT arrangement works well.
architect77:
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 30, 2022, 06:02:50 AM ---
--- Quote from: architect77 on November 27, 2022, 09:36:33 PM ---I would like to find out how to spearhead independent cleanups, as this holiday season visitors to Raleigh will be greeted by trash-strewn shoulders of the Beltline as well as interchanges with Capital Blvd. etc.
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https://www.ncdot.gov/initiatives-policies/environmental/adoptahighway/Pages/default.aspx
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Thank you for that link. Unforiunately Wake County has no roads left to adopt. I may have to go out to some particularly bad spots and just pick it up myself.
I do try to keep a small 500 foot street of NC561 clean as you enter Louisburg. To my display, within 2-3 days new trash on the shoulders is visible. I just remind myself how bad it would have accululated without my several cleanups every year.
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