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What You Need to Know About North Carolina for July 1, 2015

What You Need to Know About North Carolina for July 1, 2015

Another month! Thanks for your patience as I’ve moved and figured out how to keep this venture going. You can always support this blog by making a purchase, a purchase of my next book, Get Around North Carolina.

If you anything like me, you might depend on Google Maps, but hate the data charges. This fixes that. And here’s a taste of what you’ll get in the book, a traveler’s guide to I-95.

I-95 is probably the most well known of any interstate, at least on the East Coast. If you are coming up from Florida, going to New York or DC and likewise coming from Boston, New York or DC and going to Florida, or possibly Myrtle Beach or the Outer Banks, I-95 is your best bet, interstate-wise.

It was piece-mealed together like all the other interstate highways and in the original plan for the Interstate System built in the 1950s. Because of that piecemealing, it has only been completely signed as interstate (upward from paralleling or being co-signed with US 301) since 1980. It’s also the most likely highway to get tolls.

The toll idea has been bandied around since 2001, precisely because the highway has a mostly rural alignment and is used by mostly out-of-state travelers passing through to go to points north or south. The toll is slated to be in place by 2019 and pay for multiple improvements to the highway.

Want to know more about the state’s interstate highways, and how to navigate around the state, with all available modes? Pre-order Get Around North Carolina, and it will be there for you on July 22.

And now, your news:

If you have a scooter, as of today, you need to register it as a vehicle with the state.

The latest on the changes to the bill that wants to change the Greensboro city council districts.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has expressed its dislike of a bill at the General Assembly that will strip away environmental protections.

The bill on autism in the Senate has House committee approval.

Driver’s ed has been suspended in a 3rd of the state’s high schools.

The U.S. Labor Secretary visited an apprenticeship program near Charlotte yesterday.

The protest petition could be a thing of the past soon, as the bill to get rid of them has advanced in the General Assembly.

The protest petition could be a thing of the past soon, as the bill to get rid of them has advanced in the General Assembly.

Brunswick County now has an economic development department.

And finally, a podcast with The Overhead Wire’s Jeff Wood and Plan Charlotte’s Mary Newsom on Charlotte.

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