Interstate 785

Interstate 785
Route information
Maintained by NCDOT
Length:	45 mi[1] (72 km)
Major junctions
South end:	I-40 / I-85 / I-85 Bus. in Greensboro, NC
	I-840 in Greensboro, NC US 70 in Greensboro, NC NC 87 in Reidsville, NC SR 86 in Danville, VA US 58 / US 360 in Danville, VA
North end:	US 29 in Danville, VA
Highway system
Auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System Main • Auxiliary • Business North Carolina Highway System

Interstate 785 (I-785) is the designation for a future interstate route that will run 45 miles (72 km) from Interstate 40 and Interstate 85 in Greensboro, North Carolina to U.S. Route 29 and U.S. Route 58/U.S. Route 360 in Danville, Virginia. The designation was approved in 1997 at the request of a coalition of counties in North Carolina and Virginia who saw it as a way of further developing that area's economy. Most of the route will use existing U.S. Route 29 north of Greensboro; however, for a few miles I-785 will run between US 29 and its parent route, Interstate 85 on the Greensboro Urban Loop, which will also carry the Interstate 840 designation. Construction of this highway is due to begin in 2011. The only current references to I-785 on US 29 are Future I-785 Corridor signs. With the upgrade of the Danville Expressway to a four-lane route in 2004, the I-785 route in Virginia is complete (and has been given the interim designation State Route 785), but US 29 still needs to be upgraded to Interstate standards in North Carolina between the Greensboro Loop and Reidsville before the route can be signed as an Interstate. Currently, there are no projects scheduled by the North Carolina Department of Transportation to do so. Given that in the spring of 2006 NCDOT put up mileposts and added numbers to some exit signs from Reidsville to the Virginia border reflecting U.S. 29's mileage, an upgrade of this highway to an interstate does not seem to be in their immediate plans.

See also

• Interstate 785 in Virginia

References

• [e-mail], http://www.interstate-guide.com/i-785_ncva.html URL Accessed 25 September 2005.
• Davis, Jeff. 2004. "Danville's I-785 Signs Await Road" The News & Advance (Danville, VA) Accessed from http://www.newsadvance.com 11 November 2005.
• North Carolina Department of Transportation. State Transportation Improvement Plan, 2007-2013, Draft. p. 7-19. Accessed from http://www.ncdot.org/planning/development/TIP/TIP 8 September 2006.
• Barbour, John. 2006. "DOT News - Big News for County." Eden Daily News (Eden, NC). October 10. Accessed from http://www.edendailynews.com/ 10 October 2006.