NC: I-73/I-74 Rockingham Bypass

[Markkos1992]

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?msg=2965119

NCDOT has announced that the Rockingham Bypass will open Tuesday. 

[si404]

Discussion on AA Roads say that the bypass. The most recent (at time of writing) discusses NCDOT officials asking where the US220 number misinformation came from (it was their organisation cutting corners!) - it's signed as I-73/I-74, with the I-74 signs continuing along the US74 southern bypass, with I-73 ending at US74/US74Bus (exit 16 of I-73) and I-74 presumably ending at the other US74/US74Bus junction (US74 exit 321).

Hopefully some pictures or video come out to confirm the forum posts. For such a major opening, the lack of opening day news I've found is strange.

[mapmikey]

I have added the bypass but am holding off on extending I-74 with US 74 and replacing I-74futroc until there is some confirmation with how far I-74 is posted.

[Markkos1992]

I was waiting on Bob Malme's website update before discussing this further.

[rickmastfan67]

mapmikey, word of advice for 'update entries', but when you're extending something like an interstate, you should mention what the 'old' end was.  This is so people can accurately update their files if necessary.

For both I-73 & I-74 entries, you had the following: "extended south as new freeway to US 74"

Something like the following would have been better: "Extended south from Exit 22 to US 74 as a new freeway."  ("Exit 22(73)" in I-74's entry.)

Doing that provides a ton of information to users, and doesn't take up that more extra space.

BTW, you also referenced the wrong I-74 segment in your news update (referenced the 'Mount Airy' segment).  I quickly submitted a fix for that for Jim to pull in, so you don't have to worry about that.
https://github.com/TravelMapping/HighwayData/pull/8138

[si404]

I was waiting on Bob Malme's website update before discussing this further.

Poor Bob, while his site is excellent for NC interstates, is carrying the weight on this one. It's both a shame, and strange, that local sources have been so poor at being up-to-date here.