Great - we get 2 hours out of 8760 in a year. The fact that they caught 42 people in that amount of time just shows how insanely bad the problem is. We need consistent enforcement.
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I saw them checking US401 between South st and Maywood Ave so going in/out downtown on the south side, Saturday the 17th.
Saw at least 2 cops checking speed and 4 others “intercepting”.
That highway has 3 lanes in each direction and it’s really easy to go above the speed limit, especially going Northbound where there is a change of 45 to 35mph a little bit before the MLK bridge.
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That stretch is a speed trap for sure, and the road is designed for much more than the 35MPH speed limit. That stretch isn’t a pedestrian area by any stretch of the imagination, and I’m not going to believe that this speed trap has anything to do with pedestrian safety.
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Good to have a 35 mph deceleration zone as one enters the downtown area at the South Street traffic signal where the speed limit becomes 25 mph…and ought to be a Slow Zone 20 mph due to…pedestrians.
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Sad. Old Ira saw the writing on the wall and chose to retire. Evan Rachel Wood missed the perfect opportunity for the ultimate feel good story. “Hollywood star returns to hometown to save childhood theatre that made her fall in love with acting”
(i’m kidding)
Today I learned Evan Rachel Wood is from Raleigh. How fun, she’s an excellent actress!
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I think she was actually a part of Theatre in the Park. Would’ve made a great story though!
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She’s Ira David Wood’s daughter. She used to be in the annual A Christmas Carol when she was young.
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I don’t disagree with this idea but the deceleration stretch heading into downtown from the south is a wide road with wide lanes that goes downhill. If we want folks to decelerate, the road design should reinforce the intended speed limit. Instead, it does the exact opposite.
Also…What about going out of downtown? It stays 35 for a while before changing to 45. All the while there isn’t a single sidewalk in that stretch once past South St.
My point is that having the police hanging out to give tickets there doesn’t make me feel like the police are concerned about my safety as a pedestrian. It just seems like an exercise is raising money.
I’d much rather have police ticket folks who don’t fully stop before making a right on red. That is the sort of action that would make me feel safer as a pedestrian.
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Counties surrounding growing cities like Raleigh and Atlanta have seen the most economic growth Counties surrounding growing cities like Raleigh and Atlanta have seen the most economic growth
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Rents fall in the Triangle as surge of new apartments open
Looks like building more housing is not just stemming the tide of rising rents, and has actually helped reduce them. National average rent increase over the past 12 months was 1.5%, while Raleigh’s has fallen by that much.
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What sort of tone deaf presumption determines affordability by a formula saying that you need to save 20% of your salary? While I’m sure that’s ideal, what % of people actually make that happen?
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Reframed to be less scare-quote: “Raleigh is a place where many people want to live.”
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Haven’t heard that one before, seems kind of clickbaity. The more accepted standard is rent should be no more than 30% of your income. By that measure Raleigh is still unaffordable but not significantly more so than other comparable metros.
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Was just looking at this report again and have questions about this part of it.
The report found that 39.2% of residents in Raleigh have prosperous or comfortable economic situations — while 17.8% have distressed or at-risk economic situations.
In Durham, those numbers jumped to 45.4% and 23.8%, respectively.
Does this mean that Durham has both a higher percentage of both prosperous and distressed economic situations than Wake?
I like these kind of articles but still take it with a grain of salt as they seem to use a lot of assumptions and generalizations.
A related stat which I find interesting is that the number of single-person households keeps increasing. I think it’s something like a quarter of all households are now single-person. You would think the higher costs these days should incentivize more people to seek out roommates but that seems to be shrinking.
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As Silent Generation and Boomers continue to age, I’d expect more single households as spouses (usually the men) die and leave single person households. This describes my mother’s situation.
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I wonder if this is a result of what housing types are available. For example, the vast majority of new apartment units being built downtown are studio and 1br units. It’s hard to have a roommate if you can’t find apartments with more than one bedroom.
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The WSJ released their annual report on America’s hottest job markets. We slide in at #14.
…adding more text so it lets me post it
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Does they payroll change rank mean that workers in Raleigh have seen their pay increase the fifth most in the country? (I see Vegas is #1 in that category)