Not just a numbers game

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Posted by Nancy Oates on July 27, 2015

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  1. bart

     /  July 29, 2015

    New people bring jobs and money, along with greater demands on infrastructure. But traffic isn’t just an inconvenience. As I was sitting in the 54 parking lot, I realized one of the reasons I don’t shop local much is that it is much easier to go to a big box and get several errands done than it is to run around a traffic choked town to do this and that at boutique shops. While I might be willing to pay a little more to do things locally, I REALLY don’t want to pay more AND sit through lights and tailbacks and stuffed parking lots when Target is much easier.

    It is easier, particularly with children, to make one stop, get in and out and get home than it is to make several time consuming stops when you can hardly get to places in a reasonable amount of time. We timed a not unusual trip on 54 yesterday, and it took us 8 minutes to get from the intersection at the Oaks to the BP station, where we turned off.

  2. Bruce Springsteen

     /  July 31, 2015

    I think what this comes down to are two different kinds of quality. The kind of quality Chapel Hill / Carrboro emphasizes has to do with aesthetics. It’s prettier to see trees and and fewer cars and smaller business buildings with small signs and in that sense it is of higher quality.

    But another kind of quality has to do with efficiency and the simple fact of the matter is that in the real world that kind of efficiency matters to a lot of people. If you’re able to give a lot of people what they want/need at a low price then that is a form of quality. The fact that there may be a lot of traffic around the building or that the building is big and boxy is irrelevant.

  3. many

     /  July 31, 2015

    ISO 8402-1986. Now, whats a defect?

    IMO the defect in the in the area mentioned above is the intersection of 54 to 15-501/Fordham Blvd especially westbound and 15-501/Fordham Blvd to 54 east at Raleigh Road.

    Similarly the intersection of 15-501 and 54 at S. Columbia street is also incapable of handling peak traffic and is therefore defective.

    The fixes will be politically and fiscally painful involving replacing the bridges over 54 and creating a way to merge traffic without (or minimal) traffic lights.

    Tata has left the transportation department and Tennyson is the interim secretary. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. There may be a shift in DoT priorities driven by Rabon and Berger and especially the fate of a 3 billion dollar state transportation bond.

  4. anon

     /  August 3, 2015

    fairly bad opinion column this sunday in the CH news.
    the writer (I believe ) falsely said CHALT was opposed to commercial development.

    Given the writer is part of the real estate business either the writer is playing dumb or CHALT needs to focus it’s message – sharper and simpler. Again, assume others are going to paint you against all development.. so you need to preemptively point out what you are for..

    http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-opinion/article29418163.html

  5. many

     /  August 3, 2015

    Yawn.

    All in all it was simply a shallow hit peace with very little substance. Zimmerman who has an obvious dog in the fight will need to do much than spout false choices and slander to convince people that the town has done its job.