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I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:26 PM
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To any of my upstate Tigers fans. It seems everytime I'm going to Clemson there is construction between Gaffney and Greenville - what is the local news saying about a completion date?
What's the goal? Seems like it's always going on. I was recently coming back from Atlanta late on a Friday night and they were doin construction. That was unbelievable as they had it one lane for miles.
If i'm trying to make it to Clemson we have to leave hours early; just to be on time. It's crazy!
I tried to find it on SCDOT but could not.
Thanks!
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:28 PM
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I remember when they started and completed I-77 between Rock Hill and Charlotte and it didn't take this long! And that was a massive widening project complete with center lane dividers, etc.
I might just be unlucky and only go through when there is construction going on though!
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:30 PM
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That Cowpens stretch looks like a 3rd World ? Country.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:30 PM
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I hope/pray you live long enough to see it finally completed…believe it’s 2025.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:31 PM
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I hope/pray you live long enough to see it finally completed…believe it’s 2025.
Thanks!
That's not so bad; I guess!
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November 29, 2023 for the Gaffney to Spartanburg stretch...
Aug 30, 2022, 6:33 PM
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https://www.85widening.com/faq.html I-85 Widening Project SCDOT, and its contractor, a Joint Venture of Blythe Construction, Inc. and Zachry Construction Corp. (BZJV), will rehabilitate the existing six-lane interstate beginning at mile marker 77 to mile marker 80 in Spartanburg County and widen the existing four-lane interstate to six lanes between mile marker 80 and mile marker 98 in Cherokee County.
The stretch through Blacksburg is scheduled to be completed by October 1, 2022.
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Re: November 29, 2023 for the Gaffney to Spartanburg stretch...
Aug 30, 2022, 6:37 PM
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https://www.85widening.com/faq.htmlI-85 Widening Project SCDOT, and its contractor, a Joint Venture of Blythe Construction, Inc. and Zachry Construction Corp. (BZJV), will rehabilitate the existing six-lane interstate beginning at mile marker 77 to mile marker 80 in Spartanburg County and widen the existing four-lane interstate to six lanes between mile marker 80 and mile marker 98 in Cherokee County. I-85 Widening Project SCDOT, and its contractor, a Joint Venture of Blythe Construction, Inc. and Zachry Construction Corp. (BZJV), will rehabilitate the existing six-lane interstate beginning at mile marker 77 to mile marker 80 in Spartanburg County and widen the existing four-lane interstate to six lanes between mile marker 80 and mile marker 98 in Cherokee County. I-85 Widening Project SCDOT, and its contractor, a Joint Venture of Blythe Construction, Inc. and Zachry Construction Corp. (BZJV), will rehabilitate the existing six-lane interstate beginning at mile marker 77 to mile marker 80 in Spartanburg County and widen the existing four-lane interstate to six lanes between mile marker 80 and mile marker 98 in Cherokee County. The stretch through Blacksburg is scheduled to be completed by October 1, 2022.
Perfect!
Thank You Cutigerbob!
I guess, it's leaving early and dealing with it until then. That trip from Rock Hill to Clemson isn't bad except that stretch.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?***
Aug 30, 2022, 6:35 PM
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:39 PM
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To any of my upstate Tigers fans. It seems everytime I'm going to Clemson there is construction between Gaffney and Greenville - what is the local news saying about a completion date?
What's the goal? Seems like it's always going on. I was recently coming back from Atlanta late on a Friday night and they were doin construction. That was unbelievable as they had it one lane for miles.
If i'm trying to make it to Clemson we have to leave hours early; just to be on time. It's crazy!
I tried to find it on SCDOT but could not.
Thanks!
Here's a suggestion, take Hwy 11 and backtrack thru Pickens. My son lives in Charlotte, I take this route all the time--A little round a bout but seems quicker to me.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:44 PM
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To any of my upstate Tigers fans. It seems everytime I'm going to Clemson there is construction between Gaffney and Greenville - what is the local news saying about a completion date?
What's the goal? Seems like it's always going on. I was recently coming back from Atlanta late on a Friday night and they were doin construction. That was unbelievable as they had it one lane for miles.
If i'm trying to make it to Clemson we have to leave hours early; just to be on time. It's crazy!
I tried to find it on SCDOT but could not.
Thanks! Here's a suggestion, take Hwy 11 and backtrack thru Pickens. My son lives in Charlotte, I take this route all the time--A little round a bout but seems quicker to me.
I'm certainly going to look into that. I appreciate it famcat! I most certainly will try it; not to have to deal with that stretch so much.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 8:24 PM
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I’ve taken the highway 11 route for years from my home in the NC mountains. Not ten minutes difference in time and the drive is much,much more enjoyable. Highway 11 through the mountains from Landrum to Pickens is a great drive.
Try it if you can.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:55 PM
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Going to G'ville from Chlt area in early October. Thinking of getting off at the Blacksberg exit and taking Hwy 29 to just north of Sberg then back to 85. Don't think NC is widening 85 from the Hwy 74 interchange to the SC line. Still two lanes each way.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 7:27 PM
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NC needs to work on 85 S from 485 through the Belmont area to Gastonia. Backups especially at
rush hour.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 31, 2022, 1:08 PM
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There always seems to be a lot of traffic around the Greenville Spartanburg airport, especially late in the afternoon due to road construction around a bridge. We go to Clemson every Thursday from Charlotte. It is bumper to bumper.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 6:56 PM
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12th of never.
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I remember when they started the widening
Aug 30, 2022, 6:58 PM
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project...1989 or 1990. 32 years ago.
It took only 15 years to create the entire Eisenhower Interstate system. But we also were able to put men on the moon back then, something we cannot do today.
Modern progress and know how, I tell ya'.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 7:01 PM
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Spartanburg to Greenville is nothing. Just don't hit it on a work day at morning or afternoon rush hour
Idk about Gaffney to Spartanburg.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 7:20 PM
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There is construction around Pelham Rd in Greenville where they are widening the on ramp and bridge for 85 south. I think I heard this morning on the news there is going to be a lane shift there soon when they start paving.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 31, 2022, 5:35 PM
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Well when I go to G'ville in early October will get off 85 at the Duncan exit and go through Greer. One issue with Pelham Rd is the exit going south has three streets converging very close together. The exit ramp, the west lane across the bridge and a street intersecting on the right just past the exit ramp. Makes traffic bad most any time of day.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 31, 2022, 8:01 AM
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Gaffney to Spartanburg is a disaster. As someone here said, it looks like a 3rd world country.
I headed down to Spartanburg from NC last Friday evening and it took 3 hours to go <2 miles right before the Cowpens exit; there was a wreck just past it. Those "chutes of death" are now two lanes wide, so my assumption is the wreck obstructed two lanes and emergency help could not get there to clear it out. Still, I don't understand three friggin' hours. Grrrr.  I'll take 29 next time.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 7:26 PM
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The 12th of never
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 7:34 PM
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Looks like all the interchanges/bridges through that stretch were original going back to the 50's/60's. Don't think they had ever been touched. Re doing all those have probably made it more complicated than a normal widening.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 31, 2022, 7:33 AM
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As I understand it, the railroad bridge between exits 80 and 83 (at the former Hoechst Celanese plant) factored into the delay. It's replacement required coordination with the railroad.
I travel that route (Gaffney to Spartanburg) often, and that stretch between exits 80 and 83 (especially in the northbound lane) can be hard on the nerves.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 31, 2022, 12:34 PM
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As I understand it, the railroad bridge between exits 80 and 83 (at the former Hoechst Celanese plant) factored into the delay. It's replacement required coordination with the railroad.
I travel that route (Gaffney to Spartanburg) often, and that stretch between exits 80 and 83 (especially in the northbound lane) can be hard on the nerves.
"hard on the nerves" is one way to say it, LOL!
*aggravating
*maddening
*frustrating
*crazy
*blanking silly
*senseless
*etc.
Are all other ways, I recall referring to it as we were stuck there moving inches per minute.
I feel bad for anyone that has to deal with that on a daily basis. I really do.
SMH!
I appreciate all the responses for this too! Seems like I need to just prepare for a long road trip each time that road is involved. Unless the route that has been suggested works well; which i'm hoping it works for me. Coming from Rock Hill though; not sure it will.
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To Infinity and Beyond
Aug 30, 2022, 9:07 PM
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It's government work, you can't expect any different.
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Hope it’s not tied in with the ACC
Aug 30, 2022, 9:29 PM
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G.O.R. Looking at 12-13 more years.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date? Six weeks
Aug 30, 2022, 10:02 PM
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per Shirk Brothers construction (from The Money Pit)
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 30, 2022, 11:47 PM
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when the money runs out and they get a new grant. Its how this country runs. Rinse and repeat no matter the party.
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Septober of 2035***
Aug 31, 2022, 1:08 AM
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 31, 2022, 5:36 AM
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The ride back home in the dark can be interesting to say the least. I have given up on it getting done for many years. Lot going on. Felt that way on all the construction on the 385…85 interchanges as well.
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Re: I-85 btwn Gaffney and Gville. Completion date?
Aug 31, 2022, 8:10 AM
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Moved away about 9 years ago and though I see progress when I pass through, it seems like it has taken forever to get that stretch completed.
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Just wait until DOT starts Mal-Function Junction
Aug 31, 2022, 8:23 AM
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It's another 9 year project.
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What makes you think they will EVER finish?
Jul 17, 2023, 1:20 PM
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WORST project management EVER!!
Aug 31, 2022, 4:45 PM
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At least no one has died going through there lately!! I’m thinking the “chain gang” from ‘Oh brother, where art thou?” could do a quicker job.
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Re: What makes you think they will EVER finish?
Aug 31, 2022, 6:08 PM
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LOL! Trying to hold out hope!
Based on the comments; I see this isn't just my bad luck, LOL! I take that way for 1 of 2 reasons. To go to Clemson for a game or to go to Atlanta to see my sister. So, it's only 5-6 times a year, but there seemed to always be construction going on at that particular stretch.
Now I see, "that's just how it is"!
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