The old gravel road I took to work is now a 4 lane highway

I started driving this route back in 2012 when it was just a narrow gravel strip through some farmland outside of Raleigh, took me 45 minutes to go 12 miles. Over the last decade they paved it, added lights, and now it's this huge divided road with strip malls everywhere and my commute dropped to 20 minutes. Has anyone else watched their quiet backroad turn into a mini highway?

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the_richard19d ago

Yeah that bit about "quiet backroad" really hit home. I had a buddy who drove a two lane farm road to get to his shop outside Charlotte, back when it was all tobacco fields and a single gas station. One year the county widened it to four lanes and put in a median, and now he says he can't even find the old shortcut he used to take because they rerouted the whole thing into a shopping center entrance.

val_williams19d ago

Oh man, @the_richard, that's exactly what happened to my old shortcut near Asheville!

emma_dixon7019d ago

Wait, @val_williams, wasn't that shortcut off 74, not near Asheville?