Raleigh Roads - Where They Came From, and Where They're Going

Transit and Transportation
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Point 3 here is 100% the key IMO. It’s time to treat the part of six forks from Wake Forest Rd to Millbrook like a downtown street, because that’s what it basically has become. I’d like it to look like Glenwood from Peace to Five Points, with bike lanes/paths. After all, no one complains that Glenwood isn’t 6 lanes into downtown because Capital is right there.

Let Falls/Capital/Glenwood/Lead Mine handle the N-S traffic. There’s almost nowhere on Six Forks that you couldn’t get to just as fast on those roads.

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You’re only supposed to yield if there’s a car in the roundabout, not stop and wait to see if anyone shows up. I feel like that’s why roundabouts back up. I agree about the fact that they do fill up sometimes. It’s like trying to take a left on a busy street, waiting for a break in traffic. That’s why people invented traffic lights.

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Not stop, but you’re supposed to yield. Not just fly through them like they don’t exist.

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I was about to say, didn’t he just type the definition of yielding?

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He did, and a lot of drivers don’t understand it which was the point I believe.

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That said, isn’t it ironic that most people also perform something closer to a yield at a stop sign but something closer to a stop at a yield?
:man_facepalming:t3:

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“no alanis, those are all just misfortunes…”

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If we could get everyone to understand this point with freeway on-ramps too, I would be thrilled.

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My problem with most of the new roundabouts Raleigh is adding to existing streets in the effort to calm traffic is that they don’t even require you to slow down and turn around the circle. The shit they put down on Oakwood is my prime example.

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Those things are so silly. Most cars slow down, but as a pedestrian “most” is a dangerous word.

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I still maintain, if you get enough speed, you can go straight over any roundabout. #goals
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Straight over and into the ditch.

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Ideally on top of another car, but to each their own… Lol

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sounds like a slate.com article from years back

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Saw some chatter on Twitter that, starting January 1 2025, streets will be required to be minumum 26’ wide and you’ll need a 15’ setback from any structure for fire access in the entire state of NC as part of the new building code. Appendix D I believe.

Anyone know anything about this? How much could this hamper infill development realistically?

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Is that including lane space for bike lanes or something? 13’ is ridiculously wide.

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I’m not certain – here’s the text: BCC Fire Code final revised rule | NC OAH

Busy few days for me and I haven’t actually been able to read through it yet.