45 years in the making, the loop road around Fuquay-Varina is finally finished
FUQUAY-VARINA â The idea dates back to the 1970s: Build a circle road around Fuquay-Varina to help keep drivers who are just passing through town from jamming up downtown streets. On Friday, the final segment of that circle road, Judd Parkway, was opened to traffic. The 1.8-mile northwest leg connects N.C. 55 with N.C. 42 through a largely undeveloped landscape of fields and woods, completing the parkwayâs seven-mile circle around the town. The land around the road wonât remain undeveloped; Fuquay-Varinaâs population has nearly doubled in the last decade, to about 33,000. ...
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