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I still think it’s cool. Coming down the hill by Carmax it’s neat to see where the road takes you as you head to uptown Did they seriously build a Texas Roadhouse across the parking lot from the old Texas Roadhouse / (Prime)? I’ll try to snap a pic before they take the signage down, but there now TWO Texas Roadhouses at Matthews Festival!!!

lol, I did the same thing. Some of the longer ones I was trying to figure out who was gonna get it before it happened. It was pretty entertaining

I’m not a Panthers fan but I always liked Ron. Everyone I know that has met him around town has nothing but good things to say about him.

A great time/place for a block party right there, maybe the day before it opens to traffic. I hope you all can have a moment to celebrate the re-connection of your neighborhoods!

The new parking lot is open!

Mattie’s Diner possibly coming to Plaza Midwood (or NoDa). This is exciting!

Who TF eats Milk Duds?

Get an Air Fryer Oven, it’ll change your life!

I always liked that building. Hopefully they can save it and repurpose it somehow!

There are plans out there somewhere to extend Harris along the creek behind the Honda dealership all the way to Village Lake. There will just be one interchange for Harris, Margaret Wallace, and Village Lake. This, of course, will destroy at least half of the Shopping Center across from Village Lake.

I like to think of what’s going on now with bike/ped/scooter changes as the wave of the future, probably the same way pedestrian and horse people felt when we redesigned all of the streets 100 years ago to accommodate automobiles.

Someone dropped this on my seat at the Matthews Alive Car Show

Since the storm was at night, there wasn’t much to see. We sat up and listened to the wind howling over the sound of the radio broadcast. They kept reminding people not to go outside during the eye of the storm and a few stations actually went down during the worst part of the storm. When we emerged the next day it was pure insanity. Up on Independence, there was a gas station beside what is now Papa Johns that had its cover blown out into the road completely blocking the Eastbound side. There were a dozen trees down in our yard and school was canceled for 2 weeks, but most of us kids didn’t mind. We just met up every day and made sweet forts all over the neighborhood. Chainsaws were singing a song pretty much everywhere you went, all day every day. A few of our neighbors actually got injured in the cleanup efforts. A guy 2 houses down from us had a tree laying over on his roof so he walked up the trunk and started cutting. Once he had cut the top off, the trunk stood back up and catapulted him ragdoll-style down an embankment.

Copperhead Stride is closed. On Sunday, somebody injured their thumb pretty badly. Reports vary greatly. Most people are saying “kEeP yOuR HanDs aNd FeEt InSiDe ThE VEhIcLe” but some of the lady’s friends came to her defense and said her hands were where they were supposed to be and that the seat in front of her broke and severed her thumb. https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/copperhead-strike-ride-currently-closed-at-carowinds-after-injury/275-d80d0d30-6b05-464b-9d03-5bc2bd050f3a

I vote for a cable-car/gondola style ride. The future is now!

There are a few more clues. The old bridge at I-77 near Wilkinson still exists. I saw some pics online a few years ago and haven’t been able to unsee them. Every time I’m over that way, that one bridge catches my eye. This is the site where I saw the pics: http://www.gribblenation.org/2016/08/independence-boulevard-charlottes-first.html?m=1

That’s good... and bad. Independence needs more gas stations since we lost 4(?) up near Idlewild in the expressway conversion, but WTF are we doing here? Do we really need more cars pulling out and crossing 4 lanes of 60+ mph traffic to get to Albemarle Rd? That Walmart entrance is bonkers!

Its going to be near the inside Carolina Harbor entrance, next to Copperhead Strike

My biggest concern about them charging fares for the streetcar is that nobody will use it for short trips. To go a couple of blocks, it will just make more sense to walk, bike, or scoot. Another concern i have is the amount of scooter accidents we’ll see when there are two sets of rails up/down Trade Street. They’re banned on the sidewalk between Church and College (nobody seems to know/care) and given their tiny wheel size and experience level (or lack thereof) of average riders, it seems like a recipe for disaster. I wouldn’t be surprised to see bicycle riders going over the bars. ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO ADD BIKE LANES TO TRADE ST?

$4 night at Tilt, lots of entertainment!

Meanwhile... at 129 W Trade...

I used to think this was a bad location when Bentley’s (or whatever it was before L&C) closed, but now that we have the Ballpark and all of the apartments around RB Park, it isn’t that out-of-the-way. I wonder what it’ll become next.

According to a thread on Nextdoor, the donated land was part of the woods that face Harris between East Lane and the old Sharon Forest Baptist Church.

When one person makes a mistake, it’s just a mistake. When hundreds of people continue to make the same mistake over and over, something obviously has to change. Since we can’t send everyone back to school overnight, could we change the intersections themselves? For instance, maybe the gates could remain in the “down” position until the turning lane has a green arrow, even if there isn’t a train approaching?