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The road less traveled is not found near Kernersville. As the center of the multi-county Piedmont Triad, motorists zip by, in and through Kernersville at a dizzying rate. For families with one spouse working on one side of the Triad and the other spouse at the opposite end, Kernersville provides an ideal address for the couple that goes multiple directions. A satellite map of Kernersville shows a crisscross of roads intersecting our bustling town. However, Kernersville’s spot on the map is nothing new.

Long before major interstates linked cities and states, ribbons of slower-paced roads connected communities. Travelers journeying between New York City and Atlanta often took the popular route that traversed through Kernersville. What is now Main Street was once called Salem Road, traveled most famously by President George Washington.

Perhaps no longer directly on the route between New York and Atlanta, Kernersville is far from being an obscure dot on the map. Proximity to the three major cities in the Triad places Kernersville in the center of growth and activity, yet the town maintains a vibrant yet intimate identity.

Interstate and Business 40 connect the east and west while other state highways wrap through and around Kernersville. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) continues to gear its efforts toward major road improvements and construction in Kernersville for the proposed I-74 interstate route. While the schedule remains to be determined for a start and completion date, the proposed 17-mile Eastern Beltway corridor that directly will affect Kernersville is estimated to cost $727 million.

According to the NCDOT, the 34.2-mile project will begin at U.S. 158 and end at U.S. 311. It will pass through many of Forsyth County communities, including Kernersville.

Because of proximity to well-traveled and convenient routes, businesses such as TCI Logistics and Roadway Express, Inc., have made Kernersville home to their logistics and trucking businesses. FedEx’s new, ultralarge hub at the Piedmont Triad International Airport was chosen for the same reasons. FedEx Ground, scheduled to open in 2011 in the Triad Business Park, anticipates handling over 3 million packages daily.

Kernersville also enjoys being on the PART (Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation) bus routes. Although the South Main Street stop is the only PART bus stop in Kernersville, a Winston-Salem Transportation Authority bus stop exists on the campus of East Forsyth High School. Kernersville area resident Beverly Hayes decided that she would start riding the PART bus service to her job at Timco by the airport as a gas-saving measure. She boards the bus behind Hardee’s, pays the $2 fare each way, and settles back to let someone else drive her to and from work.

“I figure it’s a good deal. I’m saving money,” Hayes says.

Her commute has lengthened but not by much time. It takes her five minutes to drive from her house to the bus stop on South Main Street. She rides the PART bus to the hub on Highway 68 where she hops onto a shuttle that takes her to work.

PART unites the three city transportation systems of Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point. Riders can catch a city bus to their city’s main terminal. Using a PART bus, they can ride to the PART hub on Highway 68 and transfer to another city’s bus. Shuttles can be booked in advance for different drop-off and pickup locations.

“You see everyone from hourly workers to professionals on the bus. It’s very diverse,” she says.

With Kernersville’s central location, transportation for businesses and residents is a convenient aspect of life in the heart of the Triad.