Urban Loop V: More traffic than previously anticipated.

A bigger interchange

 

DOT says it needs a chunk of the subdivision for the next phase of Greensboro’s Urban Loop…from the loop’s current end at Burlington Road in eastern Greensboro to U.S. 29.

 

An expanded interchange is necessary, DOT says, because of higher traffic projections than when roadway engineers filed their initial “corridor map” in October 1996.

 

Traffic estimates nixed a smaller interchange four years ago, after planners decided to remake U.S. 29 into a controlled-access expressway known as Interstate 785. The Urban Loop through that area will be a four-lane highway identified as Interstate 840.

 

Taft Wireback

Greensboro News and Record