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The first segment is from the Mecklenburg line to exit 19, reworking the exit from I 85 to 321 northbound. Second is from exit 19 to exit 10. All will be 8 lanes. south of exit 10 will be 6 lanes. I think that they'll have to rework exit 10.
Interstate 85 exit 10, the United States Route 74/United States Route 29 north exit, will need to be completely rebuilt indeed.
I've never really understood the reasoning behind I-74's alignment. It seems to me that, since bypasses were already planned for Shelby and Monroe, I-74 should have just followed US-74 across the state. Wilmington to Charlotte would be pretty straightforward. Once in Charlotte, I-74 would loop around I-485, then join I-85 and head west past Gastonia. I-74 and I-85 would split at Kings Mountain, and I-74 would follow US-74 through Kings Mountain and Shelby before joining I-26 in Columbus and continuing to Asheville. Charlotte would then have direct interstate access to both Asheville and Wilmington.
I-73 would follow US-220 from Rockingham to Greensboro (then Martinsville? not sure of the plan), and if the state had to have a spur running through Winston-Salem and High Point, it could be derived from either I-77 or I-73 (i.e. I-777 or I-773).
That's just my two cents anyway. I would think that having a bunch of different names (i.e. I-x74 between Charlotte and Rockingham, the inevitable I-x26 between Columbus and Kings Mountain, and the existing I-85 and I-485 sections) for what would essentially be a continuous route would be much more confusing than simply giving it one name.
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