two-lane toll bridge that will span across the Currituck Sound, connecting US 158 and NC 12. Its purpose is to alleviate summer traffic congestion and to improve both emergency response and evacuation time. Estimated at a cost of $410 million, construction was scheduled to start in 2019 and be completed in four years time. However the N.C. Governor announced on November 19, 2015... that construction would be moved up 2 years... Now slated to begin in 2017. - Source: Wikipedia