North Carolina Highway 906 (NC 906) is a primary

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in the U.S. state of

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. It serves as an access and evacuation route for

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Route description

NC 906 begins as a two-lane road at Beach Drive, as Middleton Boulevard. Crossing over Davis Creek, it widens to a four-lane at Oak Island Drive (SR 1190). After crossing over the

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, leaving Oak Island, the highway continues for to NC 211 (Southport-Supply Road). Continuing north as Midway Road, it goes back to two-lane as it goes through the communities of

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and Half Hell. At US 17 Business (Old Ocean Highway), it does a brief overlap and continues on along Galloway Road. NC 906 ends, after , at US 17 (Ocean Highway).

History

Discussion of a new state highway began in 2013, when State Senator

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sent a letter to the NCDOT Division 3 Office asking for support to establish a new primary route along Midway Road. The justification was the completion of

Swain's Cut Bridge Swain’s Cut Bridge carries NC 906 across the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) connecting Oak Island, NC to the mainland. Built for $36 million under contract to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, the bridge opened for traffi ...

(November, 2011), highlighting that its another route to

as well as an evacuation route. NCDOT Division 3 Office submitted a route change request in June 2014 and the town of Oak Island signed off in December 2015. NC 906 was certified and established on January 26, 2016; traversing from Beach Drive (SR 1104), in Oak Island, to US 17, near

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. It is the highest route number signed as a primary route in North Carolina.

Junction list

References

External links

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