Or just a simple relatively inexpensive yet quite useful pedestrian bridge like this one…
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Yeah I’ve been on that bridge near National Harbor and it is absurd. Very flashy and visible. The polar opposite of practical infrastructure. To me it is the poster child for the philosophy of “If you can’t build pedestrian infrastructure right, then build it HUGE.” It is simultaneously inconvenient and extremely expensive. But the trees on top of that bridge sure help us feel like spending billions on a 12 lane bridge across the potomac was the environmentally responsible thing to do.
This is precisely the sort of boondoggle that I am worried a bridge at North Hills would turn in to.
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Exactly! Though I think there would be an entrance under Fox & Hound as well from the parking deck.
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You’d at least need a roof, since it rains, snows, and sleets here.
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Possibly the only part that would need a roof would be over the escalators. But that would be it. And only if they decided to include the escalators.
We watched them try to stop Kane years ago.
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I think I recall from when this NCOD was applied, the owners of the five homes already noted to be excluded, specifically requested that exclusion because they wanted to keep their options open in terms of selling out to a developer.
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I’m not Kane but that bridge/tunnel would have to pay for itself with the ability to charge (and get) higher lease prices before I’d consider it. It’s honestly not too tough to cross a street at a crosswalk with signs alerting you to when it’s safe to walk.
Yeah…I’ve crossed at the crosswalk more than a dozen times. It’s not really a big deal. Though a bridge would be a nice perk, but it’d be pure aesthetics/convenience…fluff. Only reason to build it would be to blow money because he can.
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I will say when all this new development and these new buildings are done I bet six forks will be a decent amount more busy than it currently is. I think we should build it now while we can so we can be prepared for when it is actually needed. It will be built mainly for the safety and comfort of those crossing it, and proper construction and maintenance could make it look good aesthetics wise
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Wish we could go ahead and extend six forks into capital blvd and then build a BRT route on Capital to Six Forks from downtown.
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But no matter how many cars travel along Six Forks it’s not going to be busy when the light is red and the sign says “Walk”.
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You have also deal with cars going from main turning left or right as well
And rain/cold/hot. Tunnel pls.
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True although maybe a glass top or something could be cool
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Few crosswalks in the United States are actually safe, red light or no, thanks to right-on-red. Even a posted no right-on-red sign is obeyed less than half the time, in my observation.
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If Kane can’t rent space at NHE, he may want the bridge to fill up his supply by making it more accessible to NHW and its seemingly more active foot traffic.
As for a tunnel, I’d suspect that many will feel less safe in a tunnel than they would a bridge. I know that I’d much prefer crossing a bridge at night alone than I would being in a long tunnel.
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Found this rendering on the internet… doesn’t match the site plan exactly but a lot of things are similar.
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I can’t wait to shop at Rotary Yarn. Two stories of yarn and yarn supplies.
This rendering makes the current hotel look small by comparison.
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with rooftop yarn weaving space!
Yea, even in the elevations on the site plan submittal, the adjacent building extends about 60 above the renaissance.
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