If you think it seems like all your neighbors come from somewhere else, there's a reason for it: http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/524278.html NC has passed NJ to become the 10th most populous state in the country.
I still hear NC being referenced as one of those "Little states down south" every now and then, this is just one more fact to throw back at them. I once had a client ask if you could get a direct flight from Detroit to Raleigh?
Well what New Jersey and Georgia have that North Carolina does't have is Enough roads and also Mass transportation and light rail Our good ole boy legislators keep robbing us blind. I say we vote them all out and make them pay back the highway trust fund and put back the light rail
I just hope we don't eventually stop living in towns and start living "off exits," as they do in Jersey! Snuff P.S. I live off exit 312.
Yep, it was in state visitor information when I first moved here over 25 years ago, don't know if it is still true.
Mordorboy wrote Now that doesnt sound very neighborly. Sounds more like something a darn Yankee would sound, Escpecially two days before Christma, And especially with today being Festifivus [/quote]
http://www.ncdot.org/download/about/ncdot/quickFacts.pdf Under the Highways section is lists NC as having the second highest number of state maintained road miles in the nation now.
I assure you our secondary roads are far better than the following states: Virginia, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, or Indiana. As scary as Cornwallis is, it isn't half as bad as the roads in those states.
I belive it was the airport that did not want the connection as opposed to the folks designing the system, just as Duke was not a very willing partner as well. The light rail needed to connect more than business centers to work well, which was the biggest problem I saw. The route would require 99% of the people to drive to the rail which moves the problem instead of solving it. The other end would have to be supported by other forms of mass transit, which are not kept on any real schedule.
In Michigan, and I am talking near Detroit, a number of them are still dirt roads, I remember getting lost on one of the "XX Mile Road" sections that was dirt.
State maintain road honor is a little misleading though. Some states, the roads are maintain by the counties and cities, with just a small percentage maintain by the state. In North Carolina, all road maintaince is done by the State, thus more state-maintain roads, not necessarily most paved road.
