Complete 540 Project Visualization - from NCDOT Feb 2018

Discussion in 'Discussion Group' started by JustMe, Feb 21, 2018.

  1. Wayne Stollings

    Wayne Stollings Well-Known Member

    You should see the hundred or so acres of that pipe in storage.....
     
  2. Rockyv58

    Rockyv58 Well-Known Member

    I found this in my Nextdoor feed. Thought it lent a new look at the 540 construction.
     
  3. markfnc

    markfnc Well-Known Member

    Still hard to believe all the ramps/bridges with 70 bypass @ 40 are going away. that was all supposed to be designed with 540 in mind. Although of, course, 540 design was not final, just where it was meeting. That has to be 50 million +/- NCDOT wasted money.
     
  4. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    I thought the same thing, but probably the contractor said that it would make more sense or something. Of course that means more revenue/profit for the contractor.
     
  5. markfnc

    markfnc Well-Known Member

    Wow, thanks Rocky. That's what i had been looking for. You can only see so much progress from the roads. There is another video that guy did from Bells Lake to 55 @ Holly Springs right after this one. I really expected the path from NC50 to I 40 to look like the other video, with the basic path cut in already. I thought the would have had a crew on bridges and another doing the clearing/grading.
     
  6. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

     
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  8. markfnc

    markfnc Well-Known Member

    Rocky, have you seem any more fly over footage on your nextdoor site?
     
  9. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    I was able to grab this view from somewhere recently of the 540/40/70 interchange. The green is all the new work. It's actually a really neat interchange and should be able to maintain speed very well. If you look closely, the gray that doesn't have a green outline will go away.

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  10. Rockyv58

    Rockyv58 Well-Known Member

    That is the only one i have seen so far
     
  11. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    Some recent approvals of new noise walls.

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  12. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    A couple aerial photos from the construction company at 40 and 540

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  13. markfnc

    markfnc Well-Known Member

  14. BuzzMyMonkey

    BuzzMyMonkey Well-Known Member

    Yup !!
     
  15. markfnc

    markfnc Well-Known Member

    It's sort of weird they hadn't started clearing heading towards NC 50. But id guess this is a separate crew, and the other bunch is heading from NC 50 towards I40. I think they are working on the bridge over swift creek.
     
  16. High Plains Drifter

    High Plains Drifter Well-Known Member

    Surprised?
     
  17. jesse82nc

    jesse82nc Well-Known Member

    I believe they might actually be different sub-contracts as well. I think one sub-contract is just doing the interchange at 40/540/70
     
  18. markfnc

    markfnc Well-Known Member

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  19. Rockyv58

    Rockyv58 Well-Known Member

    I know this is a little off topic, but I remember reading somewhere here I think that they were suppose to extend Ranch road up to where the Sheetz on 70 (right at where 42 east is). Does someone know know the link, and when its suppose to start? Thanks
     
  20. Smithers

    Smithers Well-Known Member

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