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I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 7:07 PM
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I am going to be making several trips through Gaffney and Greenville has always been a pain in the backside.
To all my upstate folks and other people who may need to travel that way soon; it looks like it's supposed to be completed in early 2024.
I know you all can't wait. I only have to deal with it on occassion and get frustrated by it. A bit of good new, eh?
https://roadnow.com/i85/constructions_state.php?s=south-carolina&i=2
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 7:10 PM
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Good to know it’s improving by the day! 🤣😂
It’s got to be the biggest mess ever by a construction company with the mess in Statesville, NC where I-77 meets I-40 being second!
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 7:14 PM
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Not quite as long at I-85, I-26 from the Airport Road Exit to Asheville is going to end up taking forever as well.
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True
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Aug 7, 2023, 7:17 PM
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Seems like they have been working on it for 10 years. And looks like only a tiny fraction is complete. What is going on there?
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I can tell you what's been going on....
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Aug 7, 2023, 8:08 PM
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a whole lot of nothing!
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Re: I can tell you what's been going on....
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Aug 7, 2023, 8:11 PM
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Me too! Billions being spent!
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Truth!
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Aug 7, 2023, 9:17 PM
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If they had finished 8 years ago, shortly after they started, cost would have been 1/2 what's going to eventually be.
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i know for a fact that i listend to the CFP selection show
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Aug 7, 2023, 10:09 PM
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on the radio while driving through construction
back in Kelly Bryant's year .
a decade really isn't an exaggeration .
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 7:17 PM
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You guys are whining about nothing. I95 from Florence to the GA line is a travesty of justice. SC HS failed to fix their biggest problem. 95 is 3-4 lanes in every state but ours. Losing s lot of visitors because they can’t wait to get out!
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 7:19 PM
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You are right. Should have been planned and started 25 years ago. It’s ridiculous.
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True! I-95 in S.C. "is not good"!
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Aug 7, 2023, 8:26 PM
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You guys are whining about nothing. I95 from Florence to the GA line is a travesty of justice. SC HS failed to fix their biggest problem. 95 is 3-4 lanes in every state but ours. Losing s lot of visitors because they can’t wait to get out!
. . . . . worst part is when you get somebody in that left-hand passing lane - who basically set the cruise control on and they end up beside someone else. And, nobody can pass either of them! Backing up traffic unnecessarily.
It's crazy!
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I've said for years, if someone wanted to run for president
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Aug 7, 2023, 9:40 PM
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on the platform that all interstates would be increased to 3 lanes minimum, they would be given a lot of consideration. Ha!!
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Re: I've said for years, if someone wanted to run for president
Aug 7, 2023, 11:39 PM
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I like your thinking but as an over the road driver I'd say 4 lanes or more, minimum. The roads are over burdened and have been for a couple of decades.
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Re: I've said for years, if someone wanted to run for president
Aug 8, 2023, 9:02 AM
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Agree! Me too. It's a top issue. Tangible. Measurable.
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Gotta get to 3 first
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Aug 8, 2023, 9:37 AM
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there are areas 3 is all that's needed, 4 would be necessary on I-95 and near any large cities.
Stretches like I-24 from Chattanooga to Nashville, or I-75 from Atlanta to Knoxville, or I-81 all through Va, or 77 from Charlotte through Va, those are prime examples where 3 lanes the whole way would drastically change flow.
I don't know about y'all, but I swear there seems to be more tractor trailers just camping out in the left lane, NOT passing anyone than there used to be 15-20 years ago.
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Re: Gotta get to 3 first
Aug 8, 2023, 12:16 PM
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Yes, I have noticed that.
At certain places, they actually instruct them to go to that left lane.
I've only speculated why.
But, if anyone knows the purpose of that, it would be good to know.
I speculate they do it maybe when work crews are working on the shoulder or something. But, often, there is no shoulder work going on. So, IDK.
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Re: True! I-95 in S.C. "is not good"!
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Aug 7, 2023, 9:41 PM
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Wait until the I-95 bridge replacement over Lake Marion coming up next year !! You talk about a major cluster.
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Lake Marion Bridge Project on 95. Sounds like Trouble.
Aug 7, 2023, 9:56 PM
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I agree with you.
As far as just bad road; I-95 in my state of South Carolina(God and I love it) is no doubt the worst stretch of the famous or "infamous" interstate.
I am glad; I don't have to travel that way often. I am planning a weekend in Savannah sometime by the end of the year! Probably be good to go this year; it sounds like instead of waiting.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 8:59 PM
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I meant to post something about I-95 after returning from vacation a few weeks ago (Hilton Head/Savannah). This was the first time I had been on 95 in a few years and couldn’t believe how bad it was…to the point of being extremely unsafe. Potholes…globs of asphalt in the emergency lane that would surely cause issues if someone happened to veer over there, etc. It borders on negligent…screw that…it IS negligent.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 8, 2023, 1:01 PM
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I-85 from Exit 19 to Commerce GA is awful and extremely dangerous. Two lanes of packed speeding weaving traffic. Trucks running side by side for multiple miles. So many accidents. So many deaths. And exit 19 is a suicide section of road. Three lanes to two and a cloverleaf entrance/exit at the same location. The designing engineer had to be brain dead.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
Aug 8, 2023, 6:51 AM
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I-85 from Exit 19 to Commerce GA is awful and extremely dangerous. Two lanes of packed speeding weaving traffic. Trucks running side by side for multiple miles. So many accidents. So many deaths. And exit 19 is a suicide section of road. Three lanes to two and a cloverleaf entrance/exit at the same location. The designing engineer had to be brain dead.
I'm familiar with that section of road as well; as my sister lives in Snellville, GA. You are correct; not the best setup in the world.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 7:29 PM
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What gets me is how the sections on the NC side of Gaffney got finished so much faster. Had to be different contractors.
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You ain't seen nothing yet, The I-20 I-26 in cootville
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Aug 7, 2023, 9:02 PM
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is supposed to take 9 years. We have started going through Jenkinsville to miss all of that.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
Aug 7, 2023, 9:08 PM
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I’m headed up to Charlotte on Wednesday for the first time in over a year and dreading every minute of that stretch.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 9:34 PM
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Any update on the Westzone Tunnel?
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 10:22 PM
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I drive down 85 to Greer/Greenville all the time. I’m ready for them to complete that project. The worst part is the 18 wheelers in the left lane holding up traffic. If it’s not them it’s the clowns who refuse to drive anywhere but the left lane and there are plenty of those idiots. If you have people passing you in the right lane your A$$ is in the wrong lane if it’s 2 lanes going each way.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 7, 2023, 10:58 PM
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"but I'm going the speed limit".....LOL. These left lane campers are a much bigger hazard to traffic (specifically all the traffic BEHIND them) than the guy blowing by doing 85 mph in the left lane.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
Aug 8, 2023, 12:08 PM
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"but I'm going the speed limit".....LOL. These left lane campers are a much bigger hazard to traffic (specifically all the traffic BEHIND them) than the guy blowing by doing 85 mph in the left lane.
I agree. 100%.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
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Aug 8, 2023, 5:47 AM
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Just went through there Saturday. We were down to one lane at one point. I do see progress but on a project that size it takes a lot of progress to make any difference.
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Re: I-85 between Gaffney/Greenville. Whew!
Aug 8, 2023, 6:12 PM
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I thought NC would begin adding another lane each way from the state line to Hwy 74 where it begins 3 lanes when SC started from the state line south. At this point there's no indication NC will be doing anything soon. Traveled to Clemson from north of Charlotte in June and didn't have any trouble either way, but it's not a half way comfortable ride due to all the lane movements in and out of what was once the shoulders. Next time will get off at Blacksburg and take Hwy 29 to just north of S'burg. The stretch I really dislike is between the Catawba River and south of Gastonia.
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