The Western Rockingham Bypass, from the US 74/US 74 Bus interchange to US 220, near Ellerbe. Currently all right-of-way purchases have been completed along the proposed route. Construction on a section, along US 220 (south of Ellerbe), began in March 2014; with a contracted amount of $49.8 million, and was completed in April 2018. The remaining sections of the new bypass were scheduled to start construction by late 2017; however, under reprioritization of construction projects announced in 2014, they were first removed from the list of projects to be started through 2024 then had funding restored with a construction date of 2022 in the summer of 2016. In January 2017, however, the project though still funded was delayed 4 years, due to a low score in prioritizing projects for the 2018-2027 NCDOT State Transportation Improvement Program. In August 2018, NCDOT announced the project will be funded though in the upcoming 2020-2029 State Transportation Program document, first released as a draft in January 2019 and finalized in September 2019. The project will be let in October 2019 with construction to start soon after.