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The Executive Organization Act of 1971 combined the state highway commission and the DMV to form the NC Department of Transportation and Highway Safety. In 1979 "Highway Safety" was dropped when the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) was transferred to the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. [2]
The North Carolina Highway System consists of a vast network of Interstate, United States, and state highways, managed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. North Carolina has the second largest state maintained highway network in the United States because all roads in North Carolina are maintained by either municipalities or the ...
The primary mission of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol is to ensure safe and efficient transportation on the streets and highways, reduce crime, protect against terrorism, enforce motor vehicle laws, and respond to natural and man-made disasters. The Highway Patrol is the largest division of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Endangered red wolves received a key lifeline this week, with a federal grant supporting the construction of wildlife crossings on an Eastern North Carolina highway where three wolves have been ...
An 80-year-old man died trying to drive through a flooded North Carolina road on Tuesday as the state dealt with a historic rainfall event, according to highway officials.. The North Carolina ...
When originally established in the 1920s, the state highway system was highly organized: two-digit routes ending in "0" were major cross-state routes, other two digit routes were numbered as spurs off of the main route (that is, Highway 54 would have been a spur off of Highway 50) and lesser important routes were given three digit numbers by appending an extra "ones" digit to the two digit ...
An overturned tractor trailer carrying live catfish caused a big spill on Interstate 95, North Carolina officials say. The truck crashed heading north on I-95 around 5 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, a ...
There are 22 Interstate Highways—9 primary and 13 auxiliary—that exist entirely or partially in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of January 2020, the state had a total of 1,410 miles (2,270 km) of Interstates and 70 miles (110 km) of Interstate business routes, all maintained by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).