(The Center Square) – Interstate 40, a key commerce route from North Carolina to California, could reopen in a limited manner in about a month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday.

Speaking from where two eastbound lanes of the interstate collapsed into the Pigeon River, Duffy said the Trump administration is moving swiftly and efficiently in the rebuild effort. No emergency project in the last half-century by the Transportation Department has been this costly.