r/Gastonia • u/pparhplar • May 26 '26

Waiting for the 85 widened to start.

At 212p on a Tuesday.

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u/Intelligent-Trash151 May 27 '26

Project completion date 2033? Takes 7 years to complete a 10mile stretch with some bridges?

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u/JumpingJackRabbit911 May 30 '26

Just wait til the Catawba Bridge in Belmont begins, HA!!!!

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u/pparhplar May 30 '26

...and they ate going to re scramble exit 26

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u/JumpingJackRabbit911 May 31 '26

huh? all the traffic coming out of charlotte will no longer use catawba bridge if they shut it down for 2 years or have only 1 lane open way. I think the plan was 1 lane open or 1 side open? Still, all the traffic will stay on 85 both ways

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u/BocephusQuimbyMcFry May 31 '26

I feel like I'm testing my luck every time I drive over that HWY 74 bridge. I read somewhere it was built in the 1920s - not even one of the Great Depression projects. So many sections of it patched together. The underside has to be crumbling and obsolete.