Also when the EIS and 3 routes for southern section are resolved and 540 gets to I-40 and Clayton bypass (what a cluster that will be) then the last leg to 64 bypass will be left. By then the northen section will need widening and they will toll it all. :) careful what you ask for.

Great comments but once they put the "proposed" line across your land you or any buyer can't build anything until they know how much land they will need. They don't know up or down. I know someone who has been dealing with this 540 issue since late 80's. Yes, over 20 years. It's build then design not design build. No smart buyer will buy it unless he is low balling you. Why should she sell it for lower when land nearby is selling for 5 times what they are offering???? Hire eminent domain attorney! Also your taxes will go to over $10,000 year on the land you can't sell or develop because proposed road. DOT will pay 10 times more for the land now than if they just bought it 10 years ago but that would make sense....

@cuffusion and lewiskr45

I had to travel the toll road (for work) @ 5 pm on a Friday and I could have built a house on the section from 147 to Davis drive. NO ONE was on it. I hear this same thing all the time from people that live in this area. The tolls are not paying for anything... Period. Anything else said on this is "creative" accounting... How in the world did this thing get passed as a toll road? I40 from Durham to Raleigh in both directions is not only woefully overcrowded, undersized but actually very, very dangerous to travel. I was hoping that the southern 540 loop would siphon off traffic for the southern end of Wake that now goes all the way to Wade ave, but if it is a toll road, NO ONE WILL USE IT! Who do we need to fire (or vote out...) to get this changed and how many more people need to DIE in I40 wrecks for the 540 project to move forward? Really, I am asking... Does anyone know?

Wait until the Government is in charge of Healthcare! It will make problems with the DOT look like a vacation. Government is SOOOO efficient!

What's left to build is the southern and eastern portions of the 540 loop – the Triangle Expressway Southeast Extension – which will also be toll roads.

so does that mean the westward, as Interstate 540 from N.C. Highway 264 in Knightdale to N.C. Highway 54 in Morrisville will never have to pay tolls?

"Our family lives near the 540 toll road. We DON'T use it strictly because we can drive on other roads for FREE. If they want tolls, charge the millions of vehicles passing through the state on I-95 everyday. They'll get all the money they need for 540. But as it is now, our family and our neighbors REFUSE to use the 540 toll road."

Hate to break it to you, but NO roads are free. TAXES (gas tax and other local, state, and federal taxes) are used to pay for non-toll roads. The money collected from tolls are used to pay for those roads. You pay for every inch of road you use.

"So let me get this straight: 'potential use' is now a compensatory gov't entitlement?" A_Patriot

Reread the article. Until last year, the property was part of a "protected corridor" which restricts the development of the property. A developer would not pay much for a piece of land if he didn't know what he could do with it now would he?

You read about things like this in the paper occasionally. Someone buys a nice building lot for a premium price, but they can't afford to put a house on it at the time. They save their money, pay their taxes, and then start getting ready to build. Now the environmental rules have changed and the land is worthless. Worthless, only because new regulations call a dry lot a wetland or because someone finds fossilized fluted spotted canary eagle hawk oil dung on it. And the landowner suffers. I should say the taxpayer landowner suffers.

It should be dealt with.

No one is denying your right to own your land (or sell it). patriot

then are u saying they are lying and owner can sell the land. accoarding to article she can't do anything with it as long as state has it in the "headlock"...

The holdups have potentially cost Johnson millions of dollars over the past 10 years. During that same time period, she's had to pay approximately $228,000 in property taxes on the land – taxes, she says, she can no longer afford.

IMO if the state has grabbed "hold of it so to speak" taxes should not be paid by owner since owner has no cntrol over the land. but then the state isn't known for playing fair.

cuffusion - doesn't fall under equal protection because it isn't a the only route from the area and they are limited to only using it.

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