[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Don't they have plans for this though? They've been talking about improvements for decades, and I've seen several intersection drawings for the route. Unless they are starting from scratch on that too...

Concepts are a long ways from actual designs/final engineering.
They might have a full plan in place, complete with full decisions on type/size/etc for the interchanges, but there's now way they've done the full engineering on them, as that would be a lot of money to spend prior to committing to the project.

Add in a planning period to figure out how to actually build this stuff without shutting down the whole road and you've got quite a bit of work that needs to happen before you start moving any dirt.