The N.C. Department of Transportation is reviving plans to turn a congested stretch of U.S. 64 in Apex and Cary into a quasi-freeway, with more lanes and fewer traffic lights.
NCDOT wants to widen U.S. 64 from four lanes to six between Salem Street in Apex and U.S. 1 in Cary. It also plans to turn busy intersections at Laura Duncan Road and Lake Pine Drive into highway interchanges, with overpasses and exit and entrance ramps. Closer to U.S. 1, it plans to reconfigure the Edinburgh Drive intersection with a bridge that eliminates the traffic light there.
NCDOT will present its plans at a public meeting Nov. 18, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the John M. Brown Community Center in Apex. It will accept feedback by phone, mail and email through Dec. 17…