I-74 тас жолы: Орта Батыс және Солтүстік Каролинадағы маршруты

Interstate Highway in the Midwest and in North Carolina

Interstate 74 (I 74) is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Its western end is at an interchange with I 80 in Davenport, Iowa (Quad Cities); the eastern end of its Midwest segment is at an interchange with I 75 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The major cities that I 74 connects to include Davenport, Iowa; Peoria, Illinois; Bloomington, Illinois; Champaign, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Cincinnati, Ohio. I 74 also exists as several disconnected sections of highways in North Carolina.

Long range plans call for I 74 to continue east and south of Cincinnati to North Carolina using SR 32 from Cincinnati to Piketon, Ohio, and then the proposed I 73 from Portsmouth, Ohio, through West Virginia (along current US 52) to I 77. It would then follow I 77 through Virginia into North Carolina, where I 74 splits from I 77 near the Virginia state line and runs eastward to northwest US 52, which it will eventually follow to Winston Salem, then through High Point to I 73. I 73 and I 74 overlap to Rockingham. In 1996, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) approved the signing of highways as I 74 along its proposed path east (south) of I 81 in Wytheville, Virginia, where those highways meet Interstate Highway standards. North Carolina started putting up I 74 signs along its roadways in 1997. as of 2008, I 74 is proposed to follow the path of I 77 through the state of Virginia but remains unsigned from the West Virginia border to the North Carolina border.

The 1991 plan to build I 73 soon included an extension of I 74 from where it ended in Hamilton County to I 73 at Portsmouth, Ohio, possibly along SR 32. In November 1991, Congress passed the $151 billion (equivalent to $ in ) Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) that included the I 73/74 North South Corridor and made I 73 a priority and included an extension of I 74 from Hamilton County to I 73 at Portsmouth. On August 31, 1992, the Ohio Turnpike Commission passed a resolution to study making the extension of I 74 a toll road. Congress had authorized paying for 80 percent of the cost, but the state would have to pay the remainder of the $56 million (equivalent to $ in ). The Ohio Turnpike Commission proposed that the extension run along SR 32; while Representative Jim Bunning of Kentucky wanted the road to begin in the west as part of a greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky bypass, returning to Ohio near Maysville, Kentucky.

as of 2009, I 74 remains unbuilt in the state of West Virginia. The West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) is currently upgrading the Tolsia Highway to four lanes but not to Interstate Highway standards. It was estimated that improving US 52 to Interstate standards in West Virginia would cost $2 billion (equivalent to $ in ). Still, by 1994, improvements to US 52 were planned, and future plans called for I 73 to follow that route. The I 74 extension seemed more certain.

Two sections of I 74 in North Carolina are currently under construction. These include building the bypass of Rockingham with I 73 and the eastern half of the Winston Salem Northern Beltway. The proposed path of I 74 east of I 95 in North Carolina is still being debated. The current plan takes the route along US 74 to NC 211 near Bolton then south along US 17 to near the South Carolina border. These sections are not currently proposed to be built perhaps for another 20 to 30 years. The North Carolina Turnpike Authority—at the request of officials in Brunswick County—are studying whether a toll road could get the section of I 74 in that county built faster. Starting around Laurinburg and Maxton and to the east, I 74 runs concurrent with US 74. This was the first time that a U. S. Route and Interstate Highway with the same number have been designated on the same highway. A similar situation occurred more recently in June 2015 when Wisconsin started routing I 41 along the route of US 41.

On February 11, 2005, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) came to an agreement over where I 74 (and I 73) would cross the border between the two states. It was decided that I 74 would cross the line as a northern extension of South Carolina Highway 31 (SC 31). I 74 is then proposed to end south of Myrtle Beach at SC 707. At one time, both I 73 and I 74 were to end at Georgetown. In November 2019, both NCDOT and SCDOT released maps of where I 74 could go to from South Carolina to North Carolina.

: A bypass of Winston Salem, North Carolina, planned to follow the western half of the Winston Salem Northern Beltway. : A southwestern bypass loop of Peoria, Illinois.