City wants to get path of road nailed down
HIGH POINT -- Only on paper now does the Westside Thoroughfare run through northeast Davidson County. But High Point officials want to make sure that it gets penciled in correctly before its path is gobbled up by development.
The planned 10.5 mile, four-lane Westside Thoroughfare would take drivers from I-85 at Cucumber Road to North Main Street and the U.S. 311 bypass in High Point. The location of the road is roughly projected to travel just west of the Guilford County line.
City officials have asked the state to move forward on early planning work. The city fears that if the state waits much longer, land in the path of the $170 million road will have homes and businesses, making the road much harder to build.
