Yes I know you must think it’s some kind of Start Trek knock off but its really not. The enviromental community, historic preservation, NCDOT, and me (representing the local governments) must reach a descion on CP4a (concurence point 4a of the overall NEPA/404 Merger Process) on what is the least damaging to the human and natural enviroment.
You my avid (lol) reader might think this is an easy desicion to make, but wo ho ho it is not. If you but the on/off ramps for Charlotte Rd on one side you take out two major shopping plazas, a major employer, and some severe impacts to a stream. On the other side is a historic African American community with cemetaries, churchs, neighborhoods, and wetland impacts. You have to put an interchange in at this road and if you try to avoid impacts to any of these you throw off the balance of the rest of the road and could have greater impacts someplace else along the route.
So if you ever watched Ashton Kutcher in the Butterly Affect you’d begin to understand the complexity that is road building.
