I'm not surprised to read that the segment from 95 to Camden Road has been delayed. Just two months ago, I drove around on some roads in the construction site and at time the NCDOT site had it slated for completion in July 2022!!!
What I saw during my tour shocked me!!! There was absolutely ZERO sign of any construction (flags, markers, tree clearing, dirt piles) of an interchange or even a NEW road crossing on Camden Road (the loop is supposed to go somewhere between Farm Circle Rd & Possum Holler Rd).
Also, there has been no construction of an overpass at Lake Upchurch Road.
However, I did see construction of an overpass on Waldo's Beach Rd just south of Balaam Rd but it looked like a bridge to nowhere at least in the direction of Camden Road.
After this personal tour in October, I thought that it was very odd that a project that was supposed to get done less than a year from now has no construction at Camden Road or no overpass at Lake Upchurch Rd. So the new date of December 2024 makes more sense, but I find it weird that the Fayetteville Observer newspaper or the NCDOT has not made any announcement on this project.
I bet it's probably related to the pandemic, they were ahead of schedule on the segments from All-American Freeway to Cliffdale to US 401, now there not. Similar to what's going on with the Greensboro Loop, ahead of schedule on Battleground to Lawndale to Elm, now the rest is delayed until 2023, original completion date was late 2021/early 2022.