North Carolina Highway 119 (NC 119) is a primary
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in the U.S. state of
North Carolina.
Route description
It runs from
NC 54 in
Swepsonville
Swepsonville is a town in Alamance County, North Carolina, Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census was ...
north via
Mebane
Mebane is a city located mostly in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, and partly in Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County. The town was named for Alexander Mebane, an American Revolutionary War general and member of the Unite ...
,
Hightowers, and
Semora to the
Virginia state line, where it continues as
State Route 119.
History
Established in 1940, NC 119 was a renumbering of NC 103 between NC 54 and NC 49, in Alamance County. In 1954, NC 119 was extended north, on new primary routing, to the Virginia border. In 1964, Virginia reciprocated by establishing
SR 119 from the state line north to
US 58/
US 360.
The
North Carolina Department of Transportation
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is responsible for building, repairing, and operating highways, bridges, and other modes of transportation, including ferries in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
History
The North Carolina ...
has long planned to reroute the highway, currently running through central Mebane, to a new alignment further west. However, in 1998 and 1999, civil rights complaints were filed by the West End Revitalization Association and other local residents against the Department of Transportation and city government over concerns about disproportionate impacts on predominantly African-American communities along the proposed route and longstanding dissatisfaction with access to municipal services. Although a four-year moratorium on the project was established in 1999, the
Federal Highway Administration eventually granted approval in December 2009.
A project that started in 1990 relocated NC 119 west of Mebane, creating a new 4 to 6-lane divided highway from
I-40/
I-85 to Mrs. White Lane (SR 1918). The project was broken into two parts, with a combined estimate of $101.9 million; property acquisitions were expected after 2014.
The relocated alignment opened to traffic on May 27, 2022.
Junction list
See also
*
North Carolina Bicycle Route 4 - Concurrent with NC 119 from Stephentown Road to Osmond Road near
Hyco Lake
References
External links
{{Attached KML
NCRoads.com: N.C. 119
119
119 may refer to:
* 119 (number), a natural number
* 119 (emergency telephone number)
* AD 119, a year in the 2nd century AD
* 119 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
* 119 (album), 2012
* 119 (NCT song)
*119 (Show Me the Money song)
* 119 (film), a ...
Transportation in Alamance County, North Carolina
Transportation in Caswell County, North Carolina