Editing Interstate 385 (section)

==History==
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[[Image:Greenville, South Carolina 1955 Yellow Book.jpg|thumb|1955 "Yellow Book" map of [[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]]]]
The general idea—but none of the specifics—of I-385 were present on the 1955 [[Yellow Book (Interstate system)|Yellow Book]] map of the [[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]] area. Also of note is that [[Interstate 85 in South Carolina|I-85]] would have used the [[U.S. Route 29 in South Carolina|US&nbsp;29]] corridor from Greenville east toward [[Spartanburg, South Carolina|Spartanburg]] based on the diagram.

The portion of I-385 that replaced [[U.S. Route 276|US&nbsp;276]]<ref name=AASHTO>{{Cite web|url=http://projectprofiles.transportation.org/i385.html |title=AASHTO Project Profiles: South Carolina Department of Transportation I-385 Rehabilitation Project |access-date=May 15, 2012 |author=American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |author-link=American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |date=May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235444/http://projectprofiles.transportation.org/i385.html |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (from [[South Carolina Highway 417]] [SC&nbsp;417] in [[Mauldin, South Carolina|Mauldin]] to [[South Carolina Highway 56|SC&nbsp;56]]/[[Interstate 26 in South Carolina|I-26]] in [[Clinton, South Carolina|Clinton]]) was initially the first phase built of a [[South Carolina Department of Transportation]] (SCDOT) plan that predated the Interstate System to upgrade and bypass existing through routes, the goal of forming a single [[limited-access highway]] from Greenville to the port of [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] via the state capital of [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]]. This plan was scrapped as soon as the future I-26 was added to the act of [[United States Congress|Congress]] that set into motion the Interstate System. As a result, I-26 was one of the first Interstates in the south to open in significant mileage (most in South Carolina between 1959 and 1963).{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}}

Before 1985, I-385 was only signed as such from [[Downtown Greenville, South Carolina|downtown Greenville]] to I-85. The portion of the freeway from US&nbsp;276 in Mauldin to the southern terminus at I-26 was signed as US&nbsp;276. When the connecting portion was completed, the entire freeway was signed as I-385.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

For seven months ending July 23, 2010, northbound traffic could not use a {{Convert|15|mi|km|adj=on}} section of I-385 in [[Laurens County, South Carolina|Laurens County]] due to a $60.9-million (equivalent to ${{Formatprice|{{inflation|US-GDP|60900000|2010}}}} in {{Inflation/year|index=US-GDP}}{{Inflation/fn|index=US-GDP}}) project to pave the portion extending from [[South Carolina Highway 101|SC&nbsp;101]] to the I-385/I-26 interchange near Clinton in concrete. The closing of a major highway generated controversy.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/07/25/1601956/i-385-reopened-after-7-month-closure.html|title=I-385 reopened after 7-month closure|last=Cay|first=Nathaniel|work=Greenville News|date=July 25, 2010|access-date=July 25, 2010}}</ref> Closing the Interstate for construction saved approximately $34&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Formatprice|{{inflation|US-GDP|34000000|2010}}}} in {{Inflation/year|index=US-GDP}}{{Inflation/fn|index=US-GDP}}).<ref name=AASHTO />

Between 2002 and 2012, I-385 was widened from two to three lanes in each direction from just north of exit&nbsp;24 near [[Fountain Inn, South Carolina|Fountain Inn]] to just south of Woodruff Road/[[South Carolina Highway 146|SC&nbsp;146]] (exit&nbsp;35), with the portion between exits&nbsp;31 and 35 resurfaced in concrete.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scdot.org/inside/I-385/altroutes.aspx|title=I-385 widening|work=South Carolina Department of Transportation|date=September 9, 2012|access-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref>

Between February 2016 and January 2020, the I-385/I-85 interchange was overhauled to decrease congestion and related accidents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.85385gateway.com/|title=I-85/385 Gateway|website=www.85385gateway.com}}</ref>