Silas Creek Parkway (Winston-Salem)

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Silas Creek Parkway is a partial loop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The road has multiple grades; the section between US 158 to US 421 is a freeway. The section between Country Club Road to North Point Boulevard/Bethabara Road is an expressway. And the most of the section between Main Street to US 158 is a boulevard.

Route description[]

The parkway starts at an intersection with Main Street. The road in less than a mile passes the Interstate 40 eastbound route. It then passes an intersection with NC 150 (Peters Creek Parkway) giving access to I 40 Westbound. The parkway in nearly a few miles enter into the Forsyth Tech buildings before meeting Bolton Street at an interchange. Shortly after it passes the Hanes Mall and Forsyth Medical Center area. It then upgrade to a Freeway passing the Stratford Road exit and the US 421 exits. It then downgrades to an expressway passing the Country Club Road exit. In nearly a mile it passes the Robinhood Road exit. The road soon passes the Reynolda Road interchange near the Wake Forest University campus before the parkway upgrades to the 50 MPH Speed Limit where it then ends at the North Point Road/Bethabara Road intersection.

History[]

Beginnings[]

In 1946, Silas Creek Parkway was first proposed. There were several changes in routing before 1956 when it was finalized.^[1]

Construction[]

On October 5, 1959, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (known as the State Highway Commission at the time) approved spending $500,000 to build a beltway on the outskirts of Winston-Salem. It would run between the what was then the new Forsyth Memorial Hospital and the Western Electric Company plant at Reynolda Road. The parkway would be ushering in suburban development on the western side of the city and pushing the city's borders west. The parkway opened on November 4, 1961. By 1963, the parkway was being widened to four lanes all along its route. In 1968, the Bolton Street intersection was reutilized to an interchange.

New extension and changes[]

In the 1980s, The Polo Road-Reynolda Road Area Plan, prepared by the City-County Planning Board was adopted by the city-County Planning Board and the Winston-Salem Board of Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen following a public hearing. There was an endorsement of a proposed extension of the Silas Creek Parkway adopted from the 1983 study, which was planned to be finished between 1991 to 1993. The extension was to be built to relieve traffic going to and from Wake Forest University. ^[2] The extension was completed in 1992 using an expressway grade under the 50 MPH speed limit with new overpasses that carried Reynolda Road and Polo Road. On the extension, a new extension of Fairlawn Drive was built connecting the new extension with Reynolda Road. The section between the extension and Reynolda Road which was northern terminus was turned into a Y-Junction connecting northbound drivers, giving drivers on northbound access to Reynolda Road and to the Wake Forest University Campus. Around the same time, Corporation Parkway became an extension of Silas Creek Parkway. In 1995, NC 67 was rerouted on the road between Reynolda Road to NC 150.

Major junctions[]

The entire route is in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County.

mi	km	Destinations	Notes
		South Main Street	Southern Terminus
		I-40 – Greensboro
		NC 150 (Peters Creek Parkway)	Eastbound end of NC 67; at-grade intersection
		Bolton Street	Folded Diamond interchange
		US 158 (Stratford Road)	Folded diamond interchange
		US 421 (Salem Parkway)	Cloverleaf interchange
		Country Club Road	Two Quadrants Interchange; northbound via Tiseland Drive
		Robinhood Road	Interchange
		NC 67 west (Reynolda Road)	Grade-separated; access to Reynolda Road via Fairlawn Drive or Wake Forest Road; westbound end of NC 67; To Wake Forest University.
		North Point Boulevard / Bethabara Road	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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