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Seeing that parking access road onto Mint for Honeywell, I wonder if there would have been a sight distance issue for cars turning left onto Mint if they had built the building/deck following the curvature of the road.

Thank you!!!

Does anyone know the history of this building? I love walking past it.

Took this while waiting in the freezing wind for a SB train from 9th street. The first two trains were canceled

They definitely need more and clearer signage. The current layout just has one red “X” hanging next to the stoplight that illuminates when the lane is closed. I anecdotally have heard from people in the Triangle that they thought it would eventually turn green and waited in the closed lane. I personally think this is an unnecessarily complicated design for an intersection that does not need it. During off peak hours the congestion isn’t heavy enough on the mainlines or left turns to need this. In my opinion it compromises safety for a few seconds of delay savings.

I totally agree, they have already had issues with people still using the outer left turn lane even when it’s supposed to be closed. I don’t think it’s worth the safety hazard during the off peak hours.

It’s a way of shutting down illegitimate dialogue that repetitively comments with the same points. So no, not in that case.

Okay boomer

They also actually have cross walks and reliable walk signals in most locations pedestrians need them.

There is a Marshville bypass as well as a Wadesboro bypass planned in the respective county Comprehensive Transportation Plans (has been for years). Eventually US 74 should be limited access from I-26 in Polk County to I-85 in Gaston County and from Charlotte basically to Wilmington.

Went running on the new section of little sugar creek between Sharon and archdale. I like the greenway paintings I think someone mentioned above. It’s a crazy wide amount of flood plain they cleared for this!

I helped with a study back in like 2016 to try to fix this. Not sure where this is in terms of funding. It may be tied to the overall 85 widening out in Gaston County so that 85 doesn’t drop to 3 lanes going westbound after this merge from 485.

I like the addition to an evolving street wall

If you live near or travel along the 77 corridor including Rock Hill, Charlotte, LKN, and/or Statesville areas, CRTPO is launching a multi year study called Beyond77. It’s looking at *not* just the 77 interstate itself but the parallel roads, transit and bike/ped options, and other potential improvements within a 3 mile radius on either side along 77. They have released an initial survey asking about your current travel habits and the decisions that go into them here: www.beyond77.com Please take the survey if you have any opinions or interest in the future of transportation along the corridor. You will be kept updated as the study progresses!

They were having the Christmas market here too

Was going to say, obviously fewer people are going to pay for lanes when there is low traffic in the free lanes. Here are some photos I took in December.

Affordable housing should always be as transit accessible as possible - because as others mentioned above me, taking transit is also more affordable than car ownership. Pairing the two is a great start to solving charlotte’s economic mobility issues. Also, placing affordable housing only in poor or racially segregated or already affordable areas doesn’t do much and shows a lack of serious thought. It packs more of a punch to make our neighborhoods economically (and otherwise) diverse - school access, transit access, other neighborhood level benefits.

I hope it will be feasible to maintain (new) affordable housing here even when it gets redeveloped. It obviously can support much greater density and variety of uses than what is currently there.

Fair to exclude the frontage roads. But I would still include managed and express lanes, which would put the Katy at 18 lanes (12 mainline plus 6 express)

The Katy Freeway (I-10) in Houston reaches up to 26 lanes wide!

Eventually they should add some bump outs with landscaping maybe even rain gardens for pervious drainage. Especially now that the industrial uses requiring large trucks are diminishing substantially in the area and being replaced with more ped centric uses

I like this, although I would say the length and capacity limitations of light rail are going to be lower than for a heavy rail metro line (you compared to DC’s metro red line)

That attitude in a close-in neighborhood along our city’s only rapid transit line drives me crazy. They should get a house in Tega Cay. Wasteful.

What will this be?