Transportation in Forsyth County, North Carolina - Interstate 40 Business (North Carolina), Interstate 40 in North Carolina, North Carolina Highway 109 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Interstate 40 Business (North Carolina), Interstate 40 in North Carolina, North Carolina Highway 109, North Carolina Highway 65, North Carolina Highway 67, Smith Reynolds Airport, U.S. Route 158, U.S. Route 311, U.S. Route 421 in North Carolina, U.S. Route 52 in North Carolina, Winston-Salem Beltway. Excerpt: North Carolina Highway System Interstate 40 runs 421 miles (678 km) through the state of North Carolina from the Tennessee state line in the west to its eastern terminus in Wilmington. The six routes of Death Valley in 2007. US 421 has since been rerouted; the shield was removed in 2009.Throughout much of the Greensboro metropolitan area, I-40 follows a stretch of six-lane freeway carrying five other routes: Business I-85, U.S. Route 421, U.S. Route 29, U.S. Route 70, and U.S. Route 220. This 2.5-mile (4.0 km) corridor begins in the west at the I-40/Business I-85/Randleman Road interchange and ends in the east at the U.S. Highway 29/70/220/Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard junction. Both of these interchanges are quite unusual in design and are often operating at above full capacity, leading to frequent traffic jams and traffic incidents. I-40 through Greensboro officially bears the name Preddy Boulevard. The nickname "Death Valley" was originally given to the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) segment of I-85 in Greensboro in 1963 after seven people died in accidents there the previous year. In 1964, the state unveiled a plan to eliminate Death Valley's flaws. After numerous construction projects, conditions improved along the corridor, but the nickname remained. Over the years, increased traffic through the area has given the nickname "Death Valley" new meaning. One major problem with the highway is that the U.S. 29/220/70 southbound lanes merge from the right, and exit to the left. Thus, through traffic on I-40 west and US...