Interstate 73/74

[The Ghostbuster]

No NC 192 markers on Google Maps yet.

[bob7374]

My point now is that upgrading the orphened part only to be signed NC 192 (2.16 miles or less) by fixing the shoulders would require only petty cash and very little time allowing a needed Interstate connector.

It's probably less than a mile that actually needs upgrading... close to 1.7 miles of soon-to-be NC-192 was already upgraded and widened apart of the I-74 interchange connector construction. And the part they did upgrade has full shoulders.

Perhaps the preference for a state designation for 'Old I-74' is due to the I-40 ramps. If they are substandard then, unlike the shoulder work, there could be some considerable costs involved in upgrading them. It is also interesting to me that they have spent time and money so far on upgrading the shoulders of what will be NC 192 but not on the substandard shoulders on I-74 east of the Beltway interchange which they promised the FHWA they would upgrade to interstate standards to keep the interstate signed after the 'mistake' was revealed.

[brian440i]

Is their a way to track when NC DOT plans to repave the 6 Miles of original US311 signed as I74 between Union Cross Rd and Main Street that has the Sub-Standard Shoulders.

It does not appear in the 2026 - 2035 STIP:  NC DOT 2026 STIP

When they promised FHWA had it not just been repaved?  Looking at Google Maps... repaving should be in a couple of years... maybe sooner if the New I-74 actually shifts any truck traffic off I40 through Greensboro during Rush Hour to get to I-85 and points east.

[sturmde]

Is their a way to track when NC DOT plans to repave the 6 Miles of original US311 signed as I74 between Union Cross Rd and Main Street that has the Sub-Standard Shoulders.

It does not appear in the 2026 - 2035 STIP:  NC DOT 2026 STIP

When they promised FHWA had it not just been repaved?  Looking at Google Maps... repaving should be in a couple of years... maybe sooner if the New I-74 actually shifts any truck traffic off I40 through Greensboro during Rush Hour to get to I-85 and points east.

Wouldn't truck traffic be taking US 421/I-73 south around G-bo to I-85... literally NCDOT's original plan for I-40?

[Strider]

Is their a way to track when NC DOT plans to repave the 6 Miles of original US311 signed as I74 between Union Cross Rd and Main Street that has the Sub-Standard Shoulders.

It does not appear in the 2026 - 2035 STIP:  NC DOT 2026 STIP

When they promised FHWA had it not just been repaved?  Looking at Google Maps... repaving should be in a couple of years... maybe sooner if the New I-74 actually shifts any truck traffic off I40 through Greensboro during Rush Hour to get to I-85 and points east.

Wouldn't work. I-74 goes southeast towards H-P and meets with I-73 south of Greensboro. Truck traffic will always use US-421 heading to Greensboro (meeting with I-40 and then I-73 to reach I-85) and points east. Rush Hour will still exist.

Now, if trucks are going to I-95 or points south, that will work since I-73/I-74 Rockingham bypass is already open.

[bob7374]

NCDOT press release about upcoming US 74/Creek Road overpass project officially reveals completion of NC 72/130 interchange project and exit number, 223:
https://www.ncdot.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/2026/2026-09-02-creek-road-overpass-project.aspx

Creek Road will be closed during the 2 years to it takes to complete the overpass.

[Dirt Roads]

Wouldn't truck traffic be taking US 421/I-73 south around G-bo to I-85... literally NCDOT's original plan for I-40?

Not sure exactly what you are thinking here, but truck traffic had already been using a number of bypasses around Greensboro:

• Asheville -to- Salisbury:  I-40//I-285
• Asheville -to- High Point/Asheboro:  I-40//I-74 (via future NC-194)
• Asheville -to- Siler City:  I-40//I-73 -and- US-421
• Wytheville -to- Salisbury:  I-77 -and- US-52//I-285
• Wytheville -to- High Point/Asheboro:  I-77 -and- US-52//I-40//I-74 (via future NC-194)
• Wytheville -to- Siler City:  I-77 -and- US-52//US-421 -and- I-40//I-73 -and- US-421

The last item on the list has already been improved with the northern section of the I-74 Winston-Salem Northern Beltway.  The one before that will be improved when the Northern Beltway is completed soon.  During rush hour, it is likely that Northern Beltway will also see some of the traffic headed towards Salisbury from Wytheville during rush hour (but GPS will still want to route everybody down US-52/I-285).

Only the traffic to Siler City (and points east such as Pittsboro, Sanford and Fayetteville) use the southern portion of the Greensboro Urban Loop (I-73/US-421), which indeed was originally posted as I-40.  But all of that traffic should continue to use the same route as it uses today.

[bob7374]

The latest trucker video by 4K Drive Tours travels from Camp Creek, WV to Kernersville, and through the I-74 in NC corridor starting at about the 2 hour mark. The video confirms that no I-74 related mile markers or exit number has appeared on its concurrency with I-77 (it would appear now for good), the road construction on US 52 in Stokes County that is widening the shoulders is nearly finished, and that all reassurance markers, except 1 after the US 311 exit, and mile markers now have I-74 shields on the open portion of the Beltway. Now less than 2 weeks until the last section is completed east of US 421 (the updated signs for that exit are to be put up later this week according to NCDOT's traffic site):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEsyyX4jTQ4

[Dirt Roads]

There is still an NC-74 reassurance sign on the Northern Beltway portion (eastbound, just past the US-311 overpass IIRC).