Collins issued a similar order in November 2016, after the Supreme Court struck down the Map Act. He set a schedule for NCDOT to appraise the Wake properties and begin making deposits.

When NCDOT is finished building this large segment of NC 540 across southern Wake County, the Triangle Expressway will be a six-lane, interstate-grade toll highway. Here’s how we got here and ...

Since the Triangle Expressway opened in 2011, revenues are 26 percent above the projections, according to NCDOT figures.

Population growth in the Triangle has driven the N.C. Department of Transportation to embark on the first major expansion of the Triangle Expressway since its final phase was completed in 2013.

The land is needed so that it can complete the southeast extension of the Triangle Expressway from east of U.S. 401 to east of I-40.

After an extra month of delays, Wake County drivers will soon get to experience a long-awaited portion of Highway 540, known as the Triangle Expressway. On Wednesday at 6 a.m., the North Carolina ...

Ahead of this extension of the Triangle Expressway opening, NCDOT is advising motorists who aim to use it regularly to get an NC Quick Pass.

Major NCDOT projects will affect Triangle drivers but hopefully relieve traffic in the long run.

The state has some big highway projects in the works in the Triangle, including the Durham East End Connector, the Triangle Expressway across southern Wake County and the widening of a stretch of ...

Slow-rolling roadblocks on the Expressway will keep motorists a safe distance away during the blasting. The rolling roadblocks will begin Monday and continue until Dec. 12.

The NCDOT sold bonds to pay for 63 percent of the cost to build the billion dollar highway. Thirty-seven percent of the cost came from taxpayers. That works out to $25 million taxpayer dollars a year.

When NCDOT is finished building this large segment of NC 540 across southern Wake County, the Triangle Expressway will be a six-lane, interstate-grade toll highway.