Notes:
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First, why include these roads in the same page if they're two different
roads? Well, they're not. Spring Forest was completed by 1963
between Falls of Neuse and Wake Forest Rd., and Lynn only existed from
Sandy Forks west to Ray Rd, crossing Six Forks and Creedmoor Rds.
(It was also called Jeffries School Rd. until 1972.) The eastern
extension of Spring Forest, from Wake Forest to US 401, was completed around
1975. The two were connected in 1983, when Spring Forest was extended
west from Falls of Neuse to Sandy Forks.
Originally, Lynn was two lanes for its entire length and Spring Forest
was three lanes from Falls of Neuse to Wake Forest. Spring Forest
was the first part of the corridor to be widened, in 1992 to five lanes.
Then came Lynn...a huge undertaking, considering the road was five miles
long and had heavy residential development along each side of it.
It was widened in two parts; the first, from Six Forks to Lead Mine Rd.,
was completed in 1994. At the same time, and completed around the
same time (a little later in '94), work was underway to extend Lynn west
to end at US 70, which was a corridor sorely needed in North Raleigh.
So, for a time, there were two five-lane sections of Lynn, connected by
a nightmarish two-lane section between Ray and Lead Mine. The remaining
two-lane section was widened to five lanes by early 1996.
Lynn and Spring Forest are not the busiest east-west roads in Raleigh (that
honor, in my opinion, goes to Strickland Rd), but they are right up there.
The 5-lane widenings were a good start, however, and the roads seem to
have good capacity for the time being. I-540 will be a factor in
a further drop of volumes here, too. Beware, however: Lynn
only turns one lane onto westbound Glenwood, and that lane ends very quickly
upon reaching Glenwood. It is a major traffic headache in the morning...caveat
driver.
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