He said he'd drive to Greensboro in a minute to get a cheaper flight. Enhanced competition may make Roanoke airport officials try to recruit airlines that offer lower fares, Willard said. The larger question, said Sarah McDaniel of Rocky Mount, is why build I-73 at all. McDaniel, a retired secretary, has driven U.S. 220 almost daily for 35 years. School buses pick up and deliver children while stopped in the lanes of U.S. 220.
Mail carriers deliver to boxes that are barely off the pavement.
The number of trucks that zoom down one slope to get up speed for climbing the upcoming hills. The rapidly increasing number of houses and developments going up along U.S. 220 or just off it on narrow country roads. The number of private driveways and country roads with access to U.S. 220. No one hates to see our area change any more than I do. But not wanting it to change has not, nor will it ever, stop the changes that are coming so rapidly with increased population and speeded-up lifestyles that we all live.