For years, dating to at least the early 1990s, leaders in the tiny town of Broadway in Lee County wanted to widen lanes and add sidewalks to a half-mile stretch of their Main Street.After a study in 1998, the state Department of Transportation said the project on the street, which is a state road, wasn't justified for the town of 1,100 people about 50 miles south of Raleigh.
How One Tiny Town Scored Road Funding
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