State mulls four toll roads
Monday, October 31st, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
Barry Smith
Star Raleigh Bureau
RALEIGH — Over the next dozen years or so, motorists in North Carolina could be paying tolls to drive on up to four roads.
The first could be a Johnny-come-lately in the toll-road game — the Triangle Parkway — which would run from where the current Durham Freeway interchanges with Interstate 40 to the yet-to-be completed Interstate 540 loop west of Raleigh. Under a best-case scenario, people could be paying tolls to ride on that four-and-a-half-mile stretch of freeway in five years.
The Triangle Parkway would be followed by three other projects the fledgling N.C. Turnpike Authority is studying:
n the 21.5-mile Garden Parkway in Gaston and Mecklenburg counties,
n the 11.5-mile Monroe Connector in Union County, and
n the nine-and-a-half-mile Cape Fear Skyway in New Hanover and Brunswick counties
“It’s very fickle work,” said David Joyner, who has been on the job as executive director of the N.C. Turnpike Authority for four months. The turnpike authority is charged with studying and building up to nine toll projects in the state. (more…)
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