Waynesville, NC – Stretching interstate 40 over the mountains of Western North Carolina is reopening in traffic this weekend, months after Hurricane Helene’s The historic flood collapsed parts of the road, partially renewing the main travel connection with East Tennessee.
The Traffic Ministry of Traffic states that the 20-mile class (32 kilometers) on the north caroline side of the border officially reopened on Saturday. Flood in the Gorge River Golubs in Haywood County washed over 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) I-40s in the east of the late September.
Although usually a four-speed path, large parts of the section now work only with one narrowed strip in each direction, with a speed limit of 35 mph (56 km / h), in accordance with the Department of State. The concrete edge separates traffic, and periodic interruptions provide access to emergency vehicles.
Gov. Josh Stein announced 10. February In order for the I-40 traffic to reopen by 1. March.
“This opening improves the flow of people, goods and services between our two countries and between locations far outside Haywood County,” Wanda Payne Regional Dot said in the news year this week. The release said that the passengers on the expense I-40 should expect delays, especially on holiday weekends and on Friday, Saturday afternoon and suggested that they continue to consider alternating interstate routes.
While I-40 through Remet Tennessee reopened a few months in traffic almost to the North Carolina border, only tapes are also expanded to reduce the connection, said North Carolina.
The North Carolina government hoped to return the turnover on the I-40 early January, but it delayed it when more asphalt from the Lan East fell in mid-December. The contractors worked on stabilizing what was left of the road with a train of long steel bars at the base under the road, fill them with small and spraying concrete on the cliff to keep them in place.
The North Carolina government has already enrolled in a contract for permanent reconstruction of the road. The Secretary of Joey Hopkins this week was late, late would be late in 2026. years before the department can completely continue to four strips, provided the stone can be written from the neighboring forest Pisgah. Otherwise, he said, he could last two to three additional years longer, because trucks will have to deliver the stone from Tennessee.
2025-02-28 17:08:00
