City and state officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to celebrate the Greensboro Urban Loop opening. The final 4-mile stretch of the 49-mile loop on interstate Interstate 840 is complete.“This is absolutely wonderful. This has been 56 years in the making,” Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan said.The planning for the entire project began in 1969 and construction began in 1999. “Ever since I moved here, this was one of the first projects I had heard about, so it’s wonderful to see it come to fruition. It’s really going to change the way we travel around Guilford county,” Vaughan said.Chair of Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston said citizens are now able to get from one side of Greensboro to the other safer and faster. It’s also a faster way to get to Raleigh and other cities in North Carolina. “It also connects us to other cities in our state and as well to Virginia. So it’s so important to us in terms of being a connector,” State Sen. Gladys Robinson said. City and state leaders say there are also economic benefits to this. “It is connecting Greensboro and Guilford county and will be able to move people and products not only from one area of town to another but onto different interstates,” Vaughan said. North Carolina State Sen. Phil Berger said, “our transportation hub is key to attracting new businesses, new jobs, new employers and new residents to North Carolina and to the Triad.”Leaders like Vaughan are encouraging the public to try out the new loop over the next few days to get used to it and incorporate it into their daily routine.
City and state officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to celebrate the Greensboro Urban Loop opening.
The final 4-mile stretch of the 49-mile loop on interstate Interstate 840 is complete.
“This is absolutely wonderful. This has been 56 years in the making,” Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan said.
The planning for the entire project began in 1969 and construction began in 1999.
“Ever since I moved here, this was one of the first projects I had heard about, so it’s wonderful to see it come to fruition. It’s really going to change the way we travel around Guilford county,” Vaughan said.
Chair of Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston said citizens are now able to get from one side of Greensboro to the other safer and faster.
It’s also a faster way to get to Raleigh and other cities in North Carolina. “It also connects us to other cities in our state and as well to Virginia. So it’s so important to us in terms of being a connector,” State Sen. Gladys Robinson said.
City and state leaders say there are also economic benefits to this.
“It is connecting Greensboro and Guilford county and will be able to move people and products not only from one area of town to another but onto different interstates,” Vaughan said.
North Carolina State Sen. Phil Berger said, “our transportation hub is key to attracting new businesses, new jobs, new employers and new residents to North Carolina and to the Triad.”
Leaders like Vaughan are encouraging the public to try out the new loop over the next few days to get used to it and incorporate it into their daily routine.