Drivers may be confused about why a ramp connecting Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard with McDowell Street suddenly closed in downtown Raleigh, but there’s logic behind it.
The N.C. Department of Transportation permanently closed the ramp from westbound MLK to northbound McDowell earlier this month. The 1,400 drivers who used it each day on average are being directed to nearby Wilmington Street into downtown.
The closure is a step in the development of a prominent piece of land at the south end of downtown known as the City Gateway district…