Put in roundabouts! 
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Got to give people who live in west Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Morrisville, Durham, etc a way to get to work in DTR. (Oops, I thought we were going to solve that with rail. Oops, I thought we were going to solve that with BRT. Maybe in my lifetime, at the rate itās advancing.) Western Blvd is pretty much at capacity too.
First the jobs need to be in downtown Raleigh. The reason why people live west of the city is that the jobs are in RTP.
If downtown became a more substantial jobs center, I predict that this might all work in reverse. Garner would boom and morph due to the south side of downtown having the best access to the city.
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You joke but roundabout down cross streets would be a good way to potentially handle left turns!
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Well, I was putting that out there to see how folks would react.
jobs need to be in downtown Raleigh.
There is state, county, and city government you know. And NCSU, Shaw, Peace, etc.
The reason why people live west of the city is that the jobs are in RTP.
In the current market, people get homes wherever they can find them. Convenience is less important than availability and price to most people.
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Though Iāve searched the web, I donāt get a sense that we really undertsand how many daytime professional employees are actually coming to offices M-F downtown. We know that the state moved the DMV to Rocky Mount, and I think that some other jobs have moved to other parts of the city, but I donāt get the sense that there are as many daily commuters in downtown on average per day. Everyone that I know who offices downtown spends at least some days at home. Also, Citrix is gone but Pendo is hereā¦but whatās the +/- of the āswapā? The jobs coming to downtown seem to be heavily leaning toward hospitality, but who are they hosting during the daytime if workers arenāt filling the seats? Also, I suspect that many of the hospitality jobs are evening/night oriented.
I have noticed that some people are coming out of apartments and driving out of the Wake County parking deck in the mornings and heading off to work. I wonder as downtown Raleigh becomes more and more apartment residential and less office employment if the downtown Raleigh area would become more of an exporter of traffic to RTP and elsewhere way from downtown.
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I meanā¦there are PLENTY of reasons to live West of Raleigh having nothing to do with RTP. Personally the longer Iām here, the more I love Cary, and able to be able to get to downtown Raleigh in 15 minutesā drive. Between downtown Cary, the downtown park, and Fenton and now the new Waverly coming, I think Iāll be here forever instead of moving downtown Raleigh. I would not have felt that way just 2 years ago.
Donāt forget, 41% of folks in Cary work from home. The largest % of any city/town in the US. That and with as spread out as the Triangle is, there are a ton of people west of Raleigh who donāt need to get downtown Raleigh for work
I avoid Wade unless absolutely necessary. Personally, I think Glenwood or Western Blvd is DEFINITELY the best way to enter the Western side of Raleigh if you canāt zip over on 40/440 and get to much of that same area of West and Southwest Raleigh via Gorman from the South. If you look at maps pre-Interstate-40, such as the 1960 Raleigh road map it showed Western as being a major thoroughfare and Wade wasnāt even significant enough to even draw.
6 stop lights on Western get you to Pullen Park (8 puts you thru to downtown Raleigh South Saunders street exit). But 6 lights on Wade get you to Daniels, a lot less distance covered due to stop and go the whole length. If you really need to get to something near Daniels and Wade, for sure use Glenwood to avoid the blind turns and narrow lanes of Wade. Anything south of Wade, you can avoid all that mess coming up from the South (if headed that way isnāt going way out of your way). I do love the hilly rolling terrain driving Wade but itās a horrendous drive with lanes way too narrow.
As busy as Western can be, it exceeds Wadeās lane count, and Wade never heard of turning lanes LOL (other than for the Cameron Village area junction)
How did all this stuff about Wade avenue get in the retail/restaurant topic? LOL
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Me. Youāre welcome! 
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Garner is one of the fastest growing towns in America already! Iād say the boom has begun.
There is still so much more potential in Garner. Thereās no reason Garner couldnāt match the population of Apex in the not so distant future.
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YES. I had emailed DOT years ago with this suggestion, even sent them road diet success stories. They didnāt seem interested and mentioned the complexities of how part of road is federally owned.
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I think it needs to come from city council for them to even consider it unfortunately.
Hey all, I am looking for some insight into the West Condominiums. I may or may not be a future owner in this building, so I just wanted to see if anyone in the community has anything positive or negative to say about their experience living there?
Iāve had family rent temporarily in the building, which they enjoyed, but they didnāt get the full owners experience to share too much details.
Feel free to message me privately if you donāt want your comments to be seen publicly. Thank you in advance!
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@OakCityDylan didnāt you have a condo in this building?? You might be the guy BlakeB is looking for!
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Yessir! Iāll shoot you a DM, @BlakeB.
And for the rest of the community, I have mostly good things to say about the building as an owner.
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@OakCityDylan is a Sunny Side Up kinda guy.
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And here I was thinking that @OakCityDylan was more scrambled. 
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