Afternoon drive down the newly reconstructed Salem Parkway through downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This route was formerly signed as I-40 Business but has since been decommissioned and now US 421 is the primary route of the Parkway. Some I-40 Business signage remains and has yet to be removed.
Filmed: June 2020
From Wikipedia:
The Salem Parkway is an 18.5-mile-long (29.8 km) freeway in the U.S. state of North Carolina, serving the cities of Winston-Salem and Kernersville. It is designated U.S. Route 421 (US 421) for its entire length, though it is also concurrent with US 158 in downtown Winston-Salem and NC 150 between Winston-Salem and Kernersville. Originally known as the East–West Expressway, it was designated as part of Interstate 40 (I-40) and opened in 1958, becoming the first section of Interstate Highway in the state. I-40 was rerouted onto a new alignment bypassing Winston-Salem and Kernersville in 1992, at which time the road was designated Interstate 40 Business, nicknamed Business 40.
Beginning in November 2018, a 1.2-mile-long (1.9 km) section of the freeway in downtown Winston-Salem between Peters Creek Parkway (NC 150) and the John Gold Memorial Expressway (US 52) was closed for reconstruction to rebuild the substandard roadway, exit and entrance ramps, and bridges. The section east of Main Street reopened August 30, 2019. As part of the project, the Business 40 designation was decommissioned and replaced with the name Salem Parkway, which had been chosen by popular vote in 2016. This included changing guide signs to include the new name, as well as renumbering exits to follow the mileage of US 421. The name change went into effect on February 2, 2020, when the road reopened, though signage outside of the project area had been changed in late December 2019
