sentences:  Interstate 40 has also been given the name Tobacco Road by college sports fans, because the freeway links up the four North Carolina schools in the ACC.Authorized by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, North Carolina was originally allocated for their share of the Interstate Highway System; of which was subsequently allocated for a route from the Tennessee state line, through Asheville and Winston-Salem, to Greensboro.Designated as I-40, it became the first interstate in the state after opening on a completed section in Winston-Salem, in 1958.