As the president seeks to spend billions to fix the nation’s aging roads and bridges, a long-running project along North Carolina’s Outer Banks illustrates the complexities of transportation infrastructure.
The Marc Basnight Bridge sprawls out from the Outer Banks mainland into the Oregon Inlet. (Courthouse News Photo / Brad Kutner)
KITTY HAWK, N.C. (CN) After being stuck inside for the last year millions of vacationers are expected to cross the Currituck Sound into North Carolina’s Outer Banks this summer.
Gaining access to the barrier islands’ 200 miles of sandy beaches and preserved lands where the Wright brothers launched the first successful motor-operated airplane requires visitors to cross over the Wright Memorial Bridge.
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The line for the gas station just off Interstate 40 snaked around the block, while just south of downtown Wilmington tanker trucks were lined up bumper to bumper waiting to enter the fuel terminals that line the Cape Fear River near the State Port.
The Colonial Pipeline had stopped pumping fuel into North Carolina, and the state was slowly grinding to a halt as gas stations ran dry.
But this wasn’t two weeks ago, when a multi-day shutdown of the pipeline caused by a ransom attack left gas stations across the Southeast particularly in North Carolina with empty tanks.