Jones Sausage Road: News and Observer, ‘Diverging diamond’ coming to I-40 interchange south of Raleigh. What drivers should know.
The new Jones Sausage interchange is part of a larger effort to widen I-40 from Raleigh south into Johnston County, which got underway in 2018. When plans for the project were presented to the public in 2017, NCDOT anticipated the interchange would remain essentially as it is today.
Garner Impact: This is significant change to the original plan. It is not clear what impact this will have on traffic along Jones Sausage Road or near by residents and businesses.
This N.C. Department of Transportation map shows the planned diverging diamond pattern at the Jones Sausage Road interchange with Interstate 40 in Garner. Construction is set to begin in July 2023 and finish in the fall. NCDOT
Garner Impact
Garner Impact: Garner Impact: This is significant change to the original plan. It is not clear what impact this will have on traffic along Jones Sausage Road or near by residents and businesses.
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BY RICHARD STRADLING
July 14, 2023
Diverging diamonds are still new to most Triangle drivers. The design involves crisscrossing traffic at either end of the interchange in a way that eliminates left turns across traffic and the amount of time drivers spend sitting at red lights. When plans for the project were presented to the public in 2017, NCDOT anticipated the interchange would remain essentially as it is today.
Highlights
But then Amazon announced that it would build a distribution center on the Garner side of the interchange, with thousands of employees and hundreds of trucks coming and going each day. NCDOT and the town agreed that the existing configuration of the interchange would be overwhelmed, said NCDOT spokesman Aaron Moody.
“It’s going to have to handle more traffic,” Moody said. “And we know the DDI does that safer and more efficiently.”
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