As recommended by Adam Prince, the only metric sign in Durham. Raleigh is listed because traffic will tend to take I-40 EB from here, and so it may not surprise you that early on, NC 147 was considered as a possible alignment for 40 (leaving I-85) before the modern one that leaves 85 sooner.
Exit 7, but you wouldn't know it.
The southern end of NC 147 as of 2009, which curved hard right, lost its median, and ended at Alexander Dr. just south of NC 54. Straight ahead was proposed to be a toll freeway through the Research Triangle that would end at the overpowered NC 540 interchange with Davis Dr.
In 2011, I took a peek at construction of the aforementioned toll freeway, Triangle Expressway, from Kit Creek Rd. WB just north of NC 540.
I noted all photos are southbound. Well, this video is northbound, from December 2011 just after Toll NC 147 opened from Toll NC 540 up to I-40. This is now Toll NC 885, renumbered after the completion of I-885 on the east side of Durham absorbed the southern half of NC 147 (basically everything after the first photo on this page).
