Interstate 785

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Interstate 785
Future route of the Interstate Highway System
Length: 45 mi[1] (72 km)
South end: I-40/85/85 BUS in Greensboro, NC
Major
junctions:		 I-840 in Greensboro, NC
in Greensboro, NC
NC 87 in Reidsville, NC
SR 86 in Danville, VA
US 58/360 in Danville, VA
North end: US 29 in Danville, VA

Interstate 785 (abbreviated 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.

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Auxiliary routes of Interstate 85

Georgia: 185 · 285 · 485 (former) · 985 — South Carolina: 185 · 385 · 585 — North Carolina: 285 (future) · 485 — North Carolina-Virginia: 785 (future)