I’m very interested in where I-540/NC540 will be built (assuming NC comes up with the money, and by that I mean raises taxes, builds toll booths and/or Gov. Mike Easley stops robbing the Highway Trust Fund).  The Southern Wake Expressway and the Eastern Wake Expressway will be a great boon to the area and will make it so much easier to get around the triangle if you live in the increasingly popular corridor between Cary and Fuquay-Varina.  So, I did some searching and found the projected routes on the NC DOT Projects website.

I’ve transferred what I found there on various maps into Google Maps.  The route should be pretty close to what is shown on the planning maps from DOT.  I used the satellite view from Google Maps and my own common sense to determine where certain road and property crossing would take place.  For example, I made the assumption that they would snake the road in and around established neighborhoods.  I could be wrong, but I think it is a pretty close approximation of the anticipated route.

Google Maps allows you to export a custom map into a KMZ file, suitable for viewing in Google Earth.  I am making that file available here as well.