665 representing Raleigh is like 7 people at a CAC meeting representing the entire CAC. Sorry, no validity, especially when it’s solicited by LR.
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Oh it’s definitely intentional, with order effects you can design a statistically significant survey to get whatever results you want.
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I agree with your points. I might also add that it appears to be a robocall type poll if Im reading the questions correctly. It seems that people who have a gripe will be more willing to answer than people who are satisfied with things. They also do not specify if its registered voters or likely voters. And in the end, it comes down to a binary choice of who is running.
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So, you are referring to the very southern end of Capital where drivers are expected to slow down as they enter the city center. That’s a deceleration area and I’d hardly call it representative of Capital having a 35 MPH zone. I think that the stretch from about Wade south is now 40 in order to make it easier to transition to a slower speed. Still, folks speed through there all the time. It doesn’t help that the road was designed to obviously carry higher speed vehicles.
This is bad road design IMO. It’s designed to look like a 55+ mph highway from the belt line into downtown, though the posted speed is much lower. If they don’t want people speeding, they shouldn’t make it look like a freeway. They had an opportunity with the recent rebuild from WF rd south, and they didn’t even plant one single tree or provide any other sense of features that would encourage people to slow down. Total fail.
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Trust me. Some of us tried to talk about this by getting rid of the bridge over Peace and making the “entrance to downtown” further north than it currently is presumed to be. Alas, no. We replaced a road with something arguably worse when it comes to the design signalling the intended speed to the drivers. It also doesn’t help that they didn’t plant any trees to that would eventually change the nature of the entrance to the city and signal that you aren’t on a limited access freeway.
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I hope that is right. The voters did elect Stef once. I hope they don’t do a version of that again😬
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The voters half-elected Stef and half-elected Bonner. Bonner didn’t care for a run off.
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Wanted to get an approx % of this silly survey:
665 is 0.14% of 2020 Raleigh pop of 467,665
Can we move on?
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It makes sense as to have a deceleration zone there, but it sure doesn’t feel like a deceleration zone. I’m much more aware of the speed limit there since the speed trap, and it feels downright dangerous going even 40 in that 35 section as cars fly by doing 55-60. (It’s also 35 or 40 on the northbound side and feels equally dangerous heading north from downtown.)
Sample size of even large national polls are often in the 1000 to 1500 range. Whats more important than the number is the selection criteria which you want to roughly represent salient characteristics of the larger population, age, race, party affiliation, education level etc. I dont know how this study stratefied the sample or even if they did. The data look somewhat reflective. I think the weakness is the wording of the questions and the robocall methodology. But I hope it can be a bit of a wake up call that we cant take anything for granted and will need to work to keep decent leadership. If course, Im preaching to the choir here. 
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Yes, but a small sample size with manipulated questions and likely many other issues really is no longer statistically significant. This to me looks like a classic bullshit poll result by a small group of loudmouths trying to make their opinions look big and important so people pay more attention to them. Like a city council candidate is told, well most people according to this poll think developers run rampant in Raleigh, make sure you take a hard line against new development or you’ll lose the election. Then the poll has done its job. If people take it for what it is, a bunch of BS, and ignore it, it doesn’t have the same power.
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I’m not sure of Dean Debnam’s continued involvement with PPP (their site still has him listed as CEO/Founder), but he’s been vocal about Drunktown and other LR-adjacent matters in the past, so I’d add that to the grain-of-salt considerations of this survey.
What on earth is Drunktown?
During the last (I think) election, there was this article and discussion from some candidates that Raleigh was becoming Drunktown with a proposal to have sidewalk dining places allowed to serve alcohol, bars and stuff popping up around downtown, etc. I think it was supposed to scare all the “families” that don’t like alcohol or the traditional pearl clutchers who have a nostalgia for 1950s Mayberry-style Raleigh.
Ironically, it could be slightly more relevant with the bad press Glenwood South has been getting the past 6 months.
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Lol, imagine thinking Raleigh is an out of control party mecca.
We’re literally an ACC college town, and a pretty sedate one at that.
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I’d suggest that manipulated questions are more important than the answers that one gets because the establish the narrative by which an entire campaign is based. The folks who get their narrative out first into the public consciousness usually benefit from the public relating to a topic.
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2015. What a wild time.
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The irony of that photo is that it was staged outside a two story office building behind Olde Raleigh shopping center, where the PR firm’s office is.
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I love how everyone who disagrees with some position a city council member has taken accuses them of being in the pocket of some other party (developers, bar owners, whatever) for contributions. Like, oh yes, I make $150k a year at my normal job, but for the opportunity to get harassed by every crank in the city for an extra $15k part time city council job…well I’d sell my soul for that!
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