Totally agree @Nickster. Unfortunately Wilmington was not planned with growth in mind. The roads just can’t handle that traffic. Plus you have all of those driveway cuts and no thought given to cohesive access points. Not a slam on Wilmington. There are other places that way - locally we have North Capital Blvd for example. About the only thing you can do is put in a stop light every 25 feet which just bogs down traffic even more, but maybe cuts down on the accidents. 
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especially since it’s literally called wave transit. this has always been so frustrating given how bad parking is at all the beaches
I think the only thing that can be done is to turn College Rd into a Texas style freeway with sideroads. It would be a monumental project so I assume it’s never happening.
Hmm… maybe this?
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New 2024 estimates out.
Raleigh is at… 499,825. 
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Nice!! If that number is real (and from 2024) then we are surely over 500k at this point.
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Raleigh jumps Colorado Springs and Omaha and lands at 39th in the country.
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I know a lot of people on here like throwing shade at Charlotte, but I think it is pretty cool that Charlotte is #6 in the country for numeric increase, adding 23,423. A few more years and they will be at one million.
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I’m trying to understand if the 24 estimates and absolute growth numbers are against the original 23 estimates or the revised 23 estimates. Do you know?
I read a post from a Charlotte poster in the CityData forum that seemed to indicate that Raleigh grew in the 8700 range from 23-24, yet the original 23 estimate was only like 482K. Raleigh’s 24 estimate is more than 17,000 higher than the original 23 estimate. I find that sort of 1 year growth in Raleigh difficult to believe. I also find Charlotte’s 23K growth in one year difficult to believe. Then again, Charlotte’s limits are ginormous.
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Interesting stuff. If you combine Raleigh, Durham, Cary - and why not Chapel Hill too - we’re over a million people, right up there with Charlotte. The difference is, our population’s spread across several major hubs, not just one…
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Raleigh happens to be one of the most conservative undercounted cities in America. I’m quite sure we’re well over 500,000 people.
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Raleigh doesn’t have several hundred square miles of land on which to grow population.
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sure, CLT has enormous area. but to see the absolute tons of apartments under construction/recently completed between just the inner ring hoods. South End, Noda, Plaza, Optimist Park, Wesley Heights. that’s just the bigger 250+ buildings. the townhome situation is bonkers as well. also, the blue line now has pushed the apartment boom all the way down to Woodlawn. passes the eye test for me at least. the 17k for Raleigh doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch either. I’m mean, not to the eyes again.
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I guess that their NIMBYs aren’t as active as Raleigh’s?
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The wave (of growth) has toppled even the fear of shadows…
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Livable Charlotte. 
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It’s based on the revised estimates. Raleigh’s 2023 was revised to 491000, so we grew about 8,000 in the last year.
Fun facts, Apex and Fuquay-Varina combined to grow more than Charlotte did last year. Charlotte’s city limits are huge, twice the size of Raleigh’s. They’ve basically eaten their suburbs, while Wake has kept them all separated out.
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And Garner grew by 10 percent becoming one of the fastest in the country over 20K!
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Where did you find that revised 2023 estimate?
Come on y’all can’t find another 175 people so Raleigh will have an even 500,000 people? Oh well I guess the next estimate will show Raleigh breaks the 500,000 limit.
2024 estimate 499,825
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