67-467: Wade Avenue is an arterial in The Triangle region of North Carolina that links Interstate 40 , Interstate 440 , and downtown Raleigh . The roadway is internally designated as Secondary Road 1728 ( SR 1728 ) from I-40 to Glenwood Avenue, however it is not signed as such. The short piece east of Glenwood Avenue carries U.S. Route 70 and North Carolina Highway 50 . Wade Avenue begins at
134-921: A AAA Minor League baseball affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays , and the Carolina Mudcats , based in Zebulon, are the Advanced-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers . In Cary, North Carolina FC plays in the second-tier USL Championship The area also had a team in the fledgling World League of American Football – however, the Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks , coached by Roman Gabriel , did not exactly cover themselves in glory; they lost all 10 games of their inaugural (and only) season in 1991. The team folded after that, being replaced in
201-607: A Research Applications District in the Wake County portion, and a Scientific Research Park in the Durham County portion. As of October 2012, both zoning areas are in the process of being revised to allow higher density development. The zoning changes are coupled with legislative changes allowing for Urban Research Service Districts (URSD) within the Park, which can include a mix of retail and residential usages. The URSDs have
268-755: A difficulty in competing with US Airways ' hub in Charlotte and Delta Air Lines ' hub in Atlanta, Georgia for passengers traveling between smaller cities in the North and South. Midway Airlines entered the market, starting service in 1995 with the then somewhat novel concept of 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets providing service from its RDU hub primarily along the East Coast. Midway, originally incorporated in Chicago , had some success after moving its operations to
335-410: A four-building complex totaling 774,000 square feet. The park hosts one of GlaxoSmithKline 's largest R&D centers with about 5,000 employees. Cisco Systems ' campus in the park, with about 5,000 employees, is its second-largest location, after its Silicon Valley corporate headquarters. The National Institutes of Health has its National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the park and
402-707: A modified Y-interchange with I-40 in West Raleigh and continues as a four-lane expressway , known locally as the Wade Avenue Extension . From here, the expressway continues southeast along mostly wooded areas and approaches a modified diamond interchange with Edwards Mill Road, providing access to Lenovo Center and the Carter–Finley Stadium . The highway then curves to a more easterly direction as it approaches another diamond interchange with Blue Ridge Road, which provides motorists access to
469-509: A nonprofit. The park is an unincorporated area , and state law prohibits municipalities from annexing areas within the park. Some local government functions are served by the Durham-Wake Counties Research and Production Service District, a special tax district created in 1986 that is conterminous with the park, wherein the property tax rate is limited to 10 cents per $ 100 valuation. The park has special zoning as
536-545: A pair of at-grade intersections that serve the city's Ridgewood section before the road downgrades and proceeds through a hilly terrain, passing by mostly residential neighborhoods for the next two miles. After a partial cloverleaf interchange with Oberlin Road, Wade Avenue returns to a southeasterly direction, passing by some state offices, then promptly turns to the northeast where it approaches an interchange U.S. Route 70 (US 70) and North Carolina Highway 50 (NC 50). From here,
603-604: A population of 2,726,000 persons. Most of the Triangle is part of North Carolina's first , second , fourth , ninth , and thirteenth congressional districts. The region is sometimes confused with the Piedmont Triad , which is a North Carolina region adjacent to and directly west of the Triangle comprising Greensboro , Winston-Salem , and High Point , among other cities. Both the Research Triangle and
670-717: A result of land purchases and site work provided by the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina. The redevelopment plans also include exploring partnerships with regional transit groups. The hope of the Research Triangle Foundation is to broaden public transportation to and from the area. In 2019, the Research Triangle Foundation announced a re-brand of the site to "Hub RTP." The 100-acre site broke ground in September 2020 and will include 125,000 SF of office over retail, 1200 residential apartments, 16 acres of green space, at least one hotel, and 1M SF of
737-684: Is Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools within Orange County but apart from Orange County Schools). Based in Cary, the Wake County Public School System , which includes the cities of Raleigh and Cary, is the largest school system in the state of North Carolina and the 15th-largest in the United States, with average daily enrollment of 159,949 as of the second month of the 2016–17 school year. Other larger systems in
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#1732791586987804-583: Is defined by Nielsen as including Chatham, Cumberland, Dunn, Durham, Granville, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Lee, Moore, Northampton, Orange, Robeson, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne , and Wilson Counties, along with parts of Franklin County. Numerous newspapers and periodicals serve the Triangle market. The Triangle is part of the Raleigh–Durham– Fayetteville Designated Market Area for broadcast television. As of 2015 –16,
871-470: Is designated US 1 for half of its route and US 401 the other is not a limited-access freeway, although it is a major thoroughfare through northeast Raleigh and into the northern downtown area. North Carolina Highway 147 is a limited-access freeway that connects I-85 with Toll Route NC 540 in northwestern Wake County. The older, toll-free portion of the four-lane route—known as the Durham Freeway or
938-558: Is in Raleigh , Wake County . All exits are unnumbered. Research Triangle The Research Triangle , or simply The Triangle , are both common nicknames for a metropolitan area in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina . Anchored by the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the town of Chapel Hill , the region is home to three major research universities: North Carolina State University , Duke University , and
1005-816: Is located near the geographic center of The Triangle, 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7.2 km) northeast of the town of Morrisville in Wake County . The airport covers 5,000 acres (2,023 ha) and has three runways . In 1939 the General Assembly of North Carolina chartered the Raleigh–Durham Aeronautical Authority, which was changed in 1945 to the Raleigh–Durham Airport Authority. The first new terminal opened in 1955. Terminal A (now Terminal 1) opened in 1981. American Airlines began service to RDU in 1985. RDU opened
1072-615: Is named. As of September 14, 2018, the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) delineated the Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area as consisting of two metropolitan and one micropolitan statistical areas. Those three statistical areas in turn are defined as consisting of a total of nine counties. The MSAs and their constituent counties are: Prior to September 2018, the OMB had used
1139-444: Is owned and managed by the Research Triangle Foundation, a private non-profit organization. North Carolina's Research Triangle region is named for the facility, which sits within the geographic triangle formed by three nearby research universities: North Carolina State University , Duke University , and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . The park is bounded by the cities of Raleigh , Durham , and Chapel Hill and
1206-624: Is part of the Raleigh–Durham–Fayetteville television designated media area and is the 25th-largest in the country with 1,135,920 households (2014) included in that area and the second largest television market in North Carolina. It is part of the Raleigh–Durham Nielsen Audio radio market (code 115) and is the 42nd-largest in the country with a population of 1,365,900. The Raleigh–Durham–Fayetteville market
1273-473: Is provided by American, Frontier and JetBlue, while the Canada flights are provided by Air Canada, Paris by Delta, and Reykjavik by Icelandair. Icelandair is the first international carrier outside of Air Canada to service the airport. Delta Air Lines currently considers the airport to be a "focus city", or an airport that is not a hub, but is of importance to the carrier. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly shrunk
1340-511: The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare announced new facilities in the park. The latter move was attributed to the efforts of Governor Terry Sanford , an ally of President John F. Kennedy . From then until the late 2000s, the park averaged six new companies and 1,800 new employees per year. IBM remained the largest employer at RTP for decades, with 11,000 workers at the site as of 2013. The RTP facility handled products including
1407-615: The IBM 1050 terminal, Selectric typewriters, PC and accounting operations, and BladeCenter servers. In 1976, the three major area universities formed a consortium, the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies (TUCASI), to develop joint research facilities and think tanks at RTP. This led to the foundation of the National Humanities Center , Microelectronics Center of North Carolina,
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#17327915869871474-578: The North Carolina Biotechnology Center , and the National Institute for Statistical Sciences. In their article "The Growth of Research Triangle Park", Link and Scott posit that entrepreneurial culture and leadership contributed the most to its success as a cluster. Archie Davis promoted a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by locating the park near universities, actively recruiting organizations (like
1541-482: The Office of Management and Budget , comprises the Raleigh – Cary , Durham – Chapel Hill , and Henderson , NC Metropolitan Statistical Areas . The 2020 census put the population of the area at 2,106,463, making it the second-largest combined statistical area in North Carolina, behind Charlotte . The Raleigh–Durham television market includes a broader 24-county area which includes Fayetteville, North Carolina , and has
1608-518: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ) are all members of the ACC . Rivalries among these schools are very strong, fueled by proximity to each other, with annual competitions in every sport. Adding to the rivalries is the large number of graduates the high schools in the region send to each of the local universities. It is very common for students at one university to know many students attending
1675-464: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , respectively. The "Triangle" name originated in the 1950s with the creation of Research Triangle Park located between the three anchor cities, which is the largest research park in the United States and home to numerous high tech companies. The nine-county region, officially named the Raleigh–Durham–Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area by
1742-775: The World University Summer Games in 2029. The region has only one professional team of the four major sports , the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League , based in Raleigh. Since moving to the Research Triangle region from Hartford, Connecticut , they have enjoyed great success, including winning a Stanley Cup . The North Carolina Courage began play in the National Women's Soccer League in 2017 after
1809-691: The 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway, 5L-23R, in 1986. American Airlines opened its north–south hub operation at RDU in the new Terminal C in June 1987, greatly increasing the size of RDU's operations with a new terminal including a new apron and runway. American brought RDU its first international flights to Bermuda , Cancun , Paris and London . In 1996, American Airlines ceased its hub operations at RDU due to Pan Am and Eastern Airlines . Pan Am and Eastern were Miami's main tenants until 1991, when both carriers went bankrupt. Their hubs at MIA were taken over by United Airlines and American Airlines. This created
1876-511: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences), and used his vision to raise funding for the park. Davis strongly believed that profits could not be the only driver for creating the park and that the betterment of the community should be the key goal. "The love of this state … was the motivation for the Research Triangle idea," he said. "Research Triangle is a manifestation of what North Carolina is all about." Research Triangle Park remains
1943-742: The CARS Late Model Stock Tour. The region's growing high-technology community includes such companies as IBM , Lenovo , SAS Institute , Cisco Systems , NetApp , Red Hat , EMC Corporation , and Credit Suisse First Boston . In addition to high-tech, the region is consistently ranked in the top three in the U.S. with concentration in life science companies. Some of these companies include GlaxoSmithKline , Biogen Idec , BASF , Merck & Co. , Novo Nordisk , Novozymes , and Pfizer . Research Triangle Park and North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus in Raleigh support innovation through R&D and technology transfer among
2010-480: The Henderson micropolitan area comprises Vance County. Some area television stations define the region as Raleigh–Durham–Fayetteville . Fayetteville is more than 50 miles (80 km) from Raleigh, but is part of the Triangle television market . Public secondary education in the Triangle is similar to that of the majority of the state of North Carolina, in which there are county-wide school systems (the exception
2077-834: The I.L. "Buck" Dean Expressway—traverses downtown Durham and extends through Research Triangle Park to I-40. The Durham Freeway is often used as a detour or alternate route for I-40 through southwestern Durham the Chapel Hill area in cases of traffic accident, congestion or road construction delays. The tolled portion of NC 147, called the Triangle Expressway—North Carolina's first modern toll road when it opened to traffic in late 2011—continues past I-40 to Toll NC 540. Both Toll NC 147 and Toll NC 540 are modern facilities which collect tolls using transponders and license plate photo-capture technology. A partnering system of multiple public transportation agencies currently serves
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2144-700: The Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments. The Triangle region, as defined for statistical purposes as the Raleigh–Durham–Cary CSA , comprises nine counties, although the U.S. Census Bureau divided the region into two metropolitan statistical areas and one micropolitan area in 2003. The Raleigh-Cary metropolitan area comprises Wake, Franklin, and Johnston Counties; the Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area comprises Durham, Orange, Chatham, Granville, and Person Counties; and
2211-460: The Park's 300 companies are housed in the Frontier campus. On October 1, 2015, former President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation, Bob Geolas, announced RTP's plans for a $ 50,000,000 redevelopment involving the formation of "Park Center." $ 20,000,000 will be allocated from Durham County, $ 10,000,000 from the Durham-Wake Counties Research and Production Service District, and $ 20,000,000 as
2278-537: The Piedmont Triad form part of the Piedmont Crescent , a heavily urbanized region of the state that includes the city of Charlotte . Depending on which definition of the Research Triangle region is used, as few as three or as many as 16 counties are included as part of the region. The three core counties of Wake, Durham, and Orange are the homes of the three research universities for which the area
2345-603: The Raleigh Outer Loop, extends from the US 64–264 Bypass to I-40 just inside Durham County, where it continues across the interstate as a state route (NC 540), prior to its becoming a toll road from the NC 54 interchange to the current terminus at NC Highway 55 near Holly Springs. I-95 serves the extreme eastern edge of the region, crossing north–south through suburban Johnston County. U.S. Routes 1, 15, and 64 primarily serve
2412-767: The Research Triangle Park area. The agency's initial proposal was effectively cancelled in 2006, however, when the agency could not procure adequate federal funding. A committee of local business, transportation and government leaders currently are working with GoTriangle to develop a new transit blueprint for the region, with various modes of rail transit, as well as bus rapid transit , open as options for consideration. ( IATA : RDU , ICAO : KRDU , FAA LID : RDU ) Raleigh–Durham International Airport (RDU) has nonstop passenger service to 68 destinations with over 450 average daily departures, including nonstop international service to Canada, Europe, and Mexico. It
2479-755: The Research Triangle region: A number of helipads (i.e. marked landing sites not classified under the FAA LID system) also serve a variety of additional medical facilities (such as UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill), as well as private, corporate and governmental interests, throughout the region. Amtrak serves the region with the Silver Meteor , Silver Star , Palmetto , Carolinian , and Piedmont routes. Film festivals and events: Notable performing arts and music venues: Theatre and dance events: Music festivals: Movie theatres: The area
2546-542: The State Fairgrounds (home of the annual North Carolina State Fair , North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine , and the North Carolina Museum of Art . Wade Avenue continues east toward a complex interchange with I-440 / US 1 ; here, the expressway portion ends and Wade Avenue becomes a four-lane undivided arterial surface highway. Continuing east, the roadway passes by
2613-592: The Triangle region under the joint GoTriangle branding. Raleigh is served by GoRaleigh (formerly Capital Area Transit) municipal transit system, while Durham has GoDurham (formerly the Durham Area Transit Authority) . Chapel Hill is served by Chapel Hill Transit , and Cary is served by GoCary (formerly C-Tran) public transit systems. However, GoTriangle, formerly called Triangle Transit, works in cooperation with all area transit systems by offering transfers between its own routes and those of
2680-577: The Triangle-based universities listed has won at least two NCAA Basketball national championships. Three historically black colleges , including recent Division I arrival North Carolina Central University and Division II members St. Augustine College and Shaw University also boost the popularity of college sports in the region. Other colleges in the Triangle that field intercollegiate teams include Campbell University , Meredith College , and William Peace University . The Triangle will host
2747-508: The area was the 25th-largest in the country. This area includes these television stations: Research Triangle Park 35°54′29″N 78°51′46″W / 35.90806°N 78.86278°W / 35.90806; -78.86278 Research Triangle Park ( RTP ) is the largest research park in the United States, occupying 7,000 acres (2,833 ha) in North Carolina and hosting more than 300 companies and 65,000 workers. It
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2814-422: The area's strengths, and keep graduates in the state. The "Research Triangle" name is first known to have been used by Romeo Guest in 1953. Guest began advocating the project after unsuccessfully attempting to bring pharmaceutical giant Merck to Aberdeen, North Carolina in the early 1940s. The project was officially greenlit by Governor Luther Hodges in 1956, but the three universities were initially wary of
2881-404: The city of Durham . In August 2017, Scott Levitan was named the foundation's new president and CEO, making him the 9th leader since the foundation was established. After World War II, North Carolina's economy was hurt as its agriculture, textile, and furniture industries lost market share. Academics at UNC, NCSU and Duke proposed a park to allow the universities to do research together, harness
2948-530: The communities of Morrisville and Cary . Most of its territory lies within Durham County , with about one-quarter in Wake County . Research Triangle Park is one of the most prominent high-tech research and development parks in the United States . It was created in 1959 by state and local governments, nearby universities , and local business interests. Karl Robbins bought the land where
3015-492: The days following. The complex held its grand opening on November 18, 2021, with several anchor tenants open for business. Initial tenants include restaurants, a brewery, a cocktail bar, a coffee shop, a beauty shop, a CBD vendor, and an escape room. The complex also features a dog park named the Barkyard RTP, pop-up yoga classes, live music, and both standalone and roof-mounted heaters in the outdoor pavilion. Boxyard RTP
3082-538: The first high rise office towers in RTP. In March 2019, RTF announced plans to construct Boxyard RTP , an 15,000-square-foot shipping container complex of retail, dining, and other amenities. The $ 9M project, which is set on 12 acres of the Frontier RTP campus, delayed its launch for a year because of the impacts of the pandemic and soft-launched in June 2021 with a few of the planned tenants opening for business in
3149-729: The league by the Ohio Glory , which fared little better at 1–9, ultimately suffering the same fate – along with the other six teams based in North America – when the league took a two-year hiatus, returning as a six-team all-European league in 1995. The Orange County Speedway in Rougemont hosts stock car racing events including the Pro All Stars Series , the CARS Super Late Model Tour and
3216-583: The midpoint of the eastern United States at RDU and its headquarters to Morrisville, NC. The carrier ultimately could not overcome three weighty challenges: the arrival of Southwest Airlines , the refusal of American Airlines to renew the frequent flyer affiliation it had with Midway (thus dispatching numerous higher fare-paying businesspeople to airlines with better reward destinations), and the significant blow of September 11, 2001. Midway Airlines filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 13, 2001, and ceased operations entirely on October 30, 2003. In February 2000, RDU
3283-794: The name Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area and it included several additional counties. The Dunn Micropolitan Statistical Area (Harnett County) and Sanford Micropolitan Statistical Area (Lee County) were moved to the Fayetteville-Sanford-Lumberton Combined Statistical Area, while the Oxford Micropolitan Statistical Area (Granville County) was folded into the Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Raleigh Metropolitan Statistical Area
3350-479: The operation, but by September 2022, Delta will be serving 21 destinations on aircraft ranging from the CRJ700 to the 767. In addition to RDU, several smaller publicly owned general-aviation airports also operate in the metropolitan region: Several licensed private general-aviation and agricultural airfields are located in the region's suburban areas and nearby rural communities: These licensed heliports serve
3417-461: The other local universities, which increases the opportunities for "bragging" among the schools. The four ACC schools in the state, Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Wake Forest University (the last of which was originally located in the town of Wake Forest before moving to Winston-Salem in 1956), are referred to as Tobacco Road by sportscasters, particularly in basketball. All four teams consistently produce high-caliber teams . Each of
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#17327915869873484-421: The other systems. Triangle Transit also coordinates an extensive vanpool and rideshare program that serves the region's larger employers and commute destinations. Plans have been made to merge all of the area's municipal systems into GoTriangle, and GoTriangle also has proposed a regional rail system to connect downtown Durham, downtown Cary and downtown Raleigh with multiple suburban stops, as well as stops in
3551-556: The owner of North Carolina FC bought the NWSL franchise rights of the Western New York Flash and relocated the NWSL franchise to the Triangle. The team has achieved broad success in the league, winning 2 NWSL championships and 3 NWSL Shields in the first five years in the Triangle. With limited top-level professional sports option, minor league sports are quite popular in the region. The Durham Bulls in downtown Durham are
3618-435: The park is now built. The park covers 7,000 acres (2,833 ha) and is situated in a pine forest with 22,500,000 square feet (2,090,318 m ) of built space. The park is traversed by Interstate 40 , the Durham Freeway , and NC 540 . The park is home to more than 300 companies that employ 55,000 workers and an additional 10,000 contractors. IBM has long been among the largest corporate tenants at RTP, with
3685-524: The power to levy taxes at the same rate as a neighboring city. The Research Triangle Foundation operates several subsidiaries within the park. These include: the Frontier RTP startup campus, Boxyard RTP, and Hub RTP. Frontier RTP first opened as a free coworking space in a single building in January 2015. Since its inception, the Foundation has expanded the Frontier RTP concept to three additional buildings, creating an affordable campus for growing tech, life science and nonprofit organizations; as of 2021, 100 of
3752-478: The primary freeway through Raleigh. The related loop freeways I-440 and I-540 are primarily located in Wake County around Raleigh. I-440 begins at the interchange of US 1 and I-40 southwest of downtown Raleigh and arcs as a multiplex with US 1 northward around downtown with the formal designation as the Cliff Benson/Raleigh Beltline (cosigned with US 1 on three-fourths of its northern route) and ends at its junction with I-40 in southeast Raleigh. I-540, sometimes known as
3819-450: The project. Although RTP was initially envisioned as a for-profit business, its strategy shifted at the direction of Archibald "Archie" Davis, a former Wachovia Bank chairman, state senator, and president of the United States Chamber of Commerce , who shifted to a non-profit model to purchase the RTP site, and successfully raised $ 1.425 million in donations from North Carolinians. The surge in RTP's growth began in 1965, when IBM and
3886-423: The region as US 15-501 . I-95 passes 30 miles east of Raleigh through Johnston County, with I-87 connecting I-95 at Rocky Mount, NC to Raleigh via the US 64–264 Bypass . The two interstates diverge from one another in Orange County, with I-85 heading northeast through northern Durham County toward Virginia , while I-40 travels southeast through southern Durham, through the center of the region, and serves as
3953-425: The region as limited-access freeways or multilane highways with access roads . US 1 enters the region from the southwest as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway and travels through suburban Apex where it merges with US 64 and continues northeast through Cary. The two highways are codesignated for about 2 miles (3.2 km) until US 1 joins I-440 and US 64 with I-40 along the Raleigh–Cary border. Capital Boulevard, which
4020-599: The region include Durham Public Schools (about 33,000 students) and rapidly growing Johnston County Schools (about 31,000 students). With the significant number of universities and colleges in the area and the relative absence of major league professional sports, NCAA sports are very popular, particularly those sports in which the Atlantic Coast Conference participates, most notably basketball. The Duke Blue Devils (representing Duke University in Durham), NC State Wolfpack (representing North Carolina State University in Raleigh), and North Carolina Tar Heels (representing
4087-431: The region's companies and research universities (including Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The area fared relatively well during the late-2000s recession , ranked as the strongest region in North Carolina by the Brookings Institution and among the top 40 in the country. The change in unemployment during 2008 to 2009 was 4.6% and home prices was 2%. The Greensboro metropolitan area
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#17327915869874154-451: The terminal. Terminal A became designated as Terminal 1 on October 26, 2008. In 2003, RDU also dedicated a new general aviation terminal. RDU continues to keep pace with its growth by redeveloping Terminal C into a new state-of-the-art terminal, now known as Terminal 2, which opened in October 2008. As of June 2022, the airport will have international flights to Cancun, London, Montreal, Paris, Reykjavik and Toronto. Cancun and London service
4221-407: The two highways overlap with Wade Avenue until it ends at an interchange with U.S. Route 401 ( Capital Boulevard ) a half mile after, where US 70 and NC 50 join US 401 heading south toward downtown Raleigh. The highway was named after Senator Benjamin Wade , a prominent anti-slavery figure, at a time when it passed through a Black neighborhood built in the 1870s.The eastern mostly-boulevard section
4288-613: Was also renamed the Raleigh-Cary Metropolitan Statistical Area. The table below outlines the populations of the constituent counties of the Raleigh–Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area as of the 2020 Census. The members of the Research Triangle Regional Partnership are: All counties in North Carolina are in one of 16 regional councils which provide programs and services to local governments. The Triangle J Council of Governments includes Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee, Moore, Orange, and Wake Counties. The northern Triangle counties of Person, Granville, Franklin, Vance, and Warren are part of
4355-411: Was finished by the mid 20th century, while the western freeway stretch would be finished in the 1980s. Prior to the completion of I-40 to South Raleigh (and on to Wilmington), and the southern portion of the Beltline (I-440), I-40 was temporarily signed along the then recently finished western segment, where it terminated at the Raleigh Beltline, which was then just U.S. Highway 1 / 64 . The entire route
4422-458: Was listed among the second-weakest and the Charlotte area among the middle in the country. The Research Triangle region is served by these hospitals and medical centers: The Triangle proper is served by three major interstate highways : I-40 , I-85 , and I-87 along with their spurs : I-885 , I-440 , and I-540 , and seven U.S. Routes : 1 , 15 , 64 , 70 , 264 , 401 , and 501 . US Highways 15 and 501 are multiplexed through much of
4489-443: Was ranked as the nation's second fastest-growing major airport in the United States, by Airports Council International, based on 1999 statistics. Passenger growth hit 24% over the previous year, ranking RDU second only to Washington Dulles International Airport . RDU opened Terminal A south concourse for use by Northwest and Continental Airlines in 2001. The addition added 46,000 square feet (4,300 m ) and five aircraft gates to
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