From the circled area on the map, it looks like this doesn’t include the old Electric Supply space. I wish they’d expand the project to it as well.
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The j-hole who owns that building won’t do anything to help this project…I promise you
I always kinda liked that Electric Supply building… is it abandoned? Wish they would do something there like reusing the main section and maybe adding more residential transitioning to the neighborhood?
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5 Points neighborhood is going to fight this project. I am telling my neighbors the site needs to be redeveloped but about 1/2 the size. Many will want to kill it altogether. We are being told 48 units which equates to about 100 cars
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I run by it almost daily and haven’t ever seen anyone inside. There’s an “Available” sign outside. I like the building as well…it could be turned into something really cool.
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They should start telling people how many cars that’d be in the peak hour. They’ll hear 100 cars now and be like “oh no too much” but in reality it’ll maybe be 10 cars in each peak hour which is barely noticeable
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just to be clear… that’s a hypothetical development I came up with. The current proposed project is from the Fairview/Bickett corner to Anisette.
I hate how negative the neighborhood is toward any sort of change. I mean they even had ‘concerns’ about the change of use of the back of the Anisette building from office use to add a new restaurant. All because the project needed a relief from the required 7 additional parking spots. 
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IMO, if folks are going to bitch about cars, perhaps they should be screaming at the top of their lungs about getting transit instead of complaining about growth and development.
The one thing that the we know for certain is that Raleigh can’t stay as it is, ad infinitum. Plus, developing so that we don’t have more cars in specific neighborhoods just assures us that we will follow down the path of previous boom cities like Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, and wind up with a massive traffic choked metro area.
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Yep - An example, during the 6-forks corridor study a few years back, the initial plans included keeping the current 2 lanes of traffic in each direction, plus a new lane for future BRT service. The people bitched about it and the plan changed to have 3 lanes of traffic each direction, with no BRT lane. SMDH.
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We did pass the transit tax in Wake County 5 years ago. So far we have very little to show for it.
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I sat through most of the Six Forks corridor study meetings and they were brutal, the amount of complaints from just considering removing a lane were insane. They then focused their hatred towards the bike lanes and I’ll never forget some of the comments and now understand why bike infrastructure faces extreme headwinds. “No one needs to exercise on Six forks” “No one exercises December through February on these bike lanes so why dedicate annual right-of-way”
ZERO consideration someone might use a bike for transportation purposes.
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Unfortunately, get out of any dense urban core and that’s how the vast majority of people think. They think any improvement will bring “crime” and traffic. Don’t mention the word transit or they’ll really lose their mind.
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The problem is that people don’t know what they don’t know. Maybe said differently, they don’t know what they haven’t experienced. All they know is cars. All they know is that their experience in cars is getting worse. All they see are trees being cut down and the traffic getting worse. What they can’t imagine is how decisions can be made that fundamentally change the overall environment while also not necessarily affecting them and their experiences and choices.
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Not entirely true. The problem is that Raleigh is sprawled out and since this was from the entire county, it led to increased services elsewhere like Rolesville. Rock Quarry Rd, Poole, Edwards Mill, Blue Ridge, and Creedmoor are new and in Raleigh. I use Blue Ridge and Edwards Mill to get to NC Museum of Art and Umstead. I use Creedmoor to get to Harris Teeter/Food Lion depending on the time.
The BRT service is coming and Glenwood is getting increased frequency. Recent talks have been pushing an extension of the Garner route.
Part of the problem is that people don’t want change that would allow for increased transit. Right now people are complaining about Lead Mine’s “tower” of 4 stories.
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Which is ridiculous because the suburban SFH developments cut even more trees down.
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This reminds of the campaign against “Coker Towers” that was killed on Oberlin 2 decades ago. It was a whole lot of nothing, yet people acted like a developer wanted to built The Empire State Building in their backyards.
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Yeah, but those aren’t THEIR trees.
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It’s not even removing lanes. Currently all of six forks (with the exception of a few blocks near NH) is all 2 lanes each way.
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