was completed in November 2010. In 2012, the National Asphalt Pavement Association awarded the repaired segment the Sheldon G. Hayes Award, recognizing it as the best highway construction project and the smoothest road of 2011. Goldsboro Bypass I-795 formerly served as the temporary west end of the new Goldsboro Bypass Freeway (NC 44). The , four-lane divided highway was opened on December 16, 2011, and connects I-795 with Wayne Memorial Drive north of Goldsboro. The highway temporarily designated NC 44. On May 27, 2016, the bypass was completed, and NC 44 signs were removed and was resigned as US 70 Byp. The bypass now runs from its west end at US 70 from just west of NC 581 in Wayne County east to end at US 70 just east of Promise Land Road in Lenoir County. Future In 2012, the Eastern North Carolina NPO/RPO coalition proposed a southern extension of I-795 from its current terminus, south along US 117 and NC 403 to I-40 near Faison. In January 2004, a feasibility studied the idea of extending the US 117 Freeway (I-795) south from its current US 70 terminus to US 13. The Strategic Highway Plan list the Wilson–Wilmington Corridor as Corridor 50 and indicates the need to improve US 117 south of Goldsboro to a four-lane divided-access freeway. A study will include US 117 from US 13 to the boundary of the Goldsboro MPO. Currently US 117 between I-40 and Goldsboro is not at freeway grade, and many at-grade crossings would have to become interchanges or be eliminated. , the southward extension of I-795 along the US 117 corridor to I-40 near Faison is the US Department of Transportation's High Priority Corridor #81. Public hearings were held in November and December 2018 for the plan to upgrade the four-lane US 117 to Interstate standards to I-40. Exit list See also Notes References External links I-795 at AARoads I-795 at the AARoads' Interstate Guide 95-7 North Carolina 95-7 7 North Carolina Transportation in Wayne County, North Carolina Transportation in Wilson County, North Carolina