Probably part of the reason our mass transit is so crappy. Since driving is so ‘enjoyable’ to drive in.
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Shockingly strong sunbelt presence on that list…wonder if that factors into maintenance ?
Buffalo ranking above CLT kinda the first surprise…
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@dtraleigh if there’s a better thread for this, please move my post
Looking for some people to vote for “Bike Durham”. If you click the link below you’ll know why. The more the merrier!
https://vote.indyweek.com/people-and-misc/best-local-activist-group
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Sorry if this isn’t the right thread for this, I know complaining about drivers is probably more apt for Reddit than this forum, but I feel like you all can sympathize with me here. I was out for an evening run tonight and witnessed a truly unreasonable number of bad drivers tonight, including one who honked at me for a good 2 seconds as I used the crosswalk in front of him. Notable entries include an entire fleet of cars (6-7) run a red light straight across the intersection because they saw a light for other directions turn green, a driver going over 40 in a 25 narrow neighborhood street, an impatient driver go into the oncoming traffic’s lane to get around a driver making a right turn, and a car seemingly abandoned in the left turn lane of a main road with no lights on and nobody nearby obviously accounting for the car.
There were more instances that I saw but I’ll spare everyone the details. In general I like Raleigh people but they turn into jerks or straight up idiots behind the wheel. Maybe it’s rosy memory but I feel like there is a noticeable uptick in crappy behavior on the roads compared to pre-pandemic.
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An increasing number of people just don’t think rules and laws apply to them. Or they just don’t give a F anymore.
I someone pass me on a neighborhood rd the other day.
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It’s definitely common to see this, I feel. It’s typical for me to just get angry on some of my bike rides due to this kind behavior out there. That’s probably why I’m so salty and pessimistic when it comes to biking in Raleigh. I see no real desire for change here and the change is coming way to slow. 
I continue to be fascinated by what Oaks and Spokes does and try and support them however I can including some serious $$$ donations.
Maybe one day.
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The Raleigh Theater is Closing for Good according to the TBJ. After more than four decades in operation, a bankruptcy and a failed merger, Raleigh’s oldest professional theater is shutting down.
The North Carolina Theatre was seeking to emerge from bankruptcy as a viable business. But more than a year after filing, that’s no longer feasible, said theater Chairman John Zaloom. “We didn’t get enough funds to keep it sustained or sustainable,” he said. “It is not a good result, but this is where we are.
The bankruptcy reorganization plan was designed to allow the theater to emerge debt-free so it could at least keep the conservatory open but that’s no longer possible, as it’s losing its space in the Kennedy Space Center at Old Wake Forest Road and Barrow Drive. Theatre Raleigh will soon take over the space.
NCT’s conservatory runs through the spring, culminating in four performances of “Into the Woods” the first week of May. Here is the link to the article https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2025/04/02/north-carolina-theatre-raleigh-closing-bankruptcy.html
Hate to hear this. But this caught my eye.
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We drove by this little office strip one day and I thought it was the strangest thing. Coming from Central Florida, I know KSC pretty well, and it ain’t in Raleigh. 
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OOPS according to WRAL Traffic was slowed for hours Monday on Interstate 40 at Page Road after a United States Postal Service truck spilled mail on the side of the highway.
Before 7 a.m., traffic was moving slowly in the westbound lanes near Exit 282 for Page Road near Research Triangle Park. By 9 a.m., most of the mail had been cleared from the roadway and traffic was moving freely again.
Durham police at the scene said a USPS truck was carrying mail from Raleigh to Chapel Hill when it lost two crates of mail, causing a minor car crash. No one was injured.
Police officers said the back door to the mail truck was not secured properly.
“We have it better than places that are worse than us” is a tautology. It says nothing about where we are nor where we can or should be.
There is plenty of room for improvement from where we are, and that’s what we should always focus on.
Try to find any great city, anywhere, ever, that started with “quality over quantity”. The typical progression is a cycle:
agglomeration → opportunity kncreases → wealth increases → rebuild with increased density + higher quality → circle back to further agglomeration.
You might be able to find a few counter-examples in heavily centrally planned new cities in places like China but that is by far the exception.
It’s an incremental process, we can’t hold out for every building to be perfect, nor hold 100 neighborhood meetings and allow 2000 veto points along the way, or else the cycle stalls.
The developments going up in 2025 are basically all higher quality than what went up in 2005, which were basically all higher quality than what was going up in 1985. We’re on the path, but we can do better.
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