Taken from the archives: Aug. 20, 2003: Wake County’s Road Plan
Taken from the archives: The Wake Forest Gazette August 20, 2003, Volume 1, #15 Wake County’s plan to improve roads Can you imagine Forestville Road with four lanes, a landscaped median and sidewalks on both sides? You might also try to conjure up U.S. 401 from Ligon Mill Road up to Louisburg at four lanes with a median and sidewalks, and N.C. 98 from Wake Forest to the county lines rebuilt to the same specifications. This is the vision of Wake County’s roads by 2025 as plotted by the county planning department and its consultant, Kimley-Horn. By that year or shortly thereafter, houses, businesses and roads will stand on all the available buildable land in the county. “It will be totally built out in 2030,” Wake planner Timothy W. Clark said. By a much closer date, 2010, Wake County will have the largest population of all 100 counties in the