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Southeast / Re: Interstate 73/74

Last post by carbaugh2 - Today at 08:20:02 AM

This is the final post of DrivingAroundNC videos, and it covers all of the construction east of Lumberton while driving US 74 West. Since it is a long video, I have included approximate time stamps for each of the projects.

1:03:00 - Lake Waccamaw grade separation and interchange
1:29:00 - Boardman interchange (now open)
1:31:00 - NC 72/NC 130 interchange

On a side note, I think NCDOT did a solid job of working around the gas station at Boardman. It appears to be just as visible along the road as before the interchange, as least from my recollection of vacation trips.

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Mid-Atlantic / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge (...

Last post by Rothman - Today at 08:16:27 AM

But as Alex said, there's no word on when the new bridge will have a different name, so let's just assume that it'll also be called the Key Bridge.

It would be funny if they named it after John Locke.

Why?

It's not that funny, but think about it.

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Southeast / Re: Interstate 73/74

Last post by carbaugh2 - Today at 08:11:27 AM

Here are a few videos of the Rockingham Bypass interchange from the last couple of months submitted by DrivingAroundNC.

In this one, he takes 74 East and exits onto 74 Business to visit Rockingham. Cue it to 25:00 if you are short on time.

Around 40 minutes, the driver travels through the Rockingham Bypass interchange on 74 on the way to Laurinburg. For those who want to see US 74 become an interstate, you can see all of the work that needs to happen west of Rockingham in this one.

Based on the videos, it looks like the majority of the remaining work on the bypass is connecting 73/74 between 220 and US 74.

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Southeast / Re: Interstate 73/74

Last post by carbaugh2 - Today at 08:02:13 AM

I came across a few more videos from the YouTube channel DrivingAroundNC showing various locations of Future I-74 construction, and I am going to post them separately based on the area visited. This one is from mid-April and shows the Beltway interchange with 52 near the 29-minute mark. The driver stays on 52, so we are getting a different view than other recent videos of the area.

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Mid-Atlantic / Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge (...

Last post by ixnay - Today at 07:57:35 AM

But as Alex said, there's no word on when the new bridge will have a different name, so let's just assume that it'll also be called the Key Bridge.

It would be funny if they named it after John Locke.

Why?

#6

Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by epzik8 - Today at 07:46:31 AM

Half guide sign, half assembly in Grayling MI.  What the... ??

Supplemental signage, I would have to guess.

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Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by wanderer2575 - Today at 04:28:55 AM

Half guide sign, half assembly in Grayling MI.  What the... ??


During roadwork projects with lane configuration changes, Michigan usually doesn't fabricate temporary overhead signs but instead jury-rigs the existing signs in attempts to make them fit.

#8

Canada / Re: Quebec's Highways

Last post by oscar - Today at 04:27:04 AM

^ Yukon and NWT max out at 90km/h, and Nunavut's roads (the few it has are all locally-maintained, except in territorial parks) even less. AFAIK (haven't been there lately), in Newfoundland the speed limits tend to be 10km/h lower than for comparable highways in Quebec.

#9

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by wanderer2575 - Today at 04:11:58 AM

A couple money-related ones.  One is the short expiration cycle for rewards points at Price Chopper/Market32/Market Bistro.  The checkouts only give the option to use them when you have more than 500.  You can use them before, but have to specifically request it, so I usually wait until then unless I see that some are expiring.  Well, I somehow missed the thing on my receipts mentioning points expiring (either it's gotten less obvious or I got so used to hitting 500 before this happens that I've stopped checking as vigorously as I should) until I finished checking out today, and now I have a few points expiring by the end of the month with no way to use them in time.

More irritating to me are store gift cards, i.e. actual cash, that expire (how the fudge does cash expire?) or deduct a monthly "maintenance fee" after some number of months after purchase, like they have to take my card balance out for a walk or something.

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Mid-South / Re: April bid openings: $1.09 ...

Last post by In_Correct - Today at 01:42:18 AM

Time for this discussion to be locked ?! If any body is concerned about tax dollars being wasted, perhaps they should be concerned that their tax dollars are paying for D.O.T. Employees to hijack discussions, spread narratives and other oppositions, for the most childish of reasons. Keep your toxic attitudes off of here AND the roads.