What does a road from Roanoke to Martinsville have to do with the Great Lakes and South Carolina?
Congress passed a law in 1991 designating the proposed I-73 as a high priority corridor from the Great Lakes to the South Carolina coast. In that legislation, Congress said the highway would go from the Bluefield area into Virginia in the area of U-S Route 460, then to the Smart Road, then to I-81 and then from Roanoke to the Greensboro/Winston-Salem area. It is a link in the Interstate system.
