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  2. Traffic Congestion and Highway Construction

    in Charlotte

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    On 5/1/2020 at 9:16 PM, kermit said:

    Its a trend everywhere in the US, fatal car accidents are way up in the pandemic due to speed.

    I am curious about your sources on this... this article says the exact opposite... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-pandemic-us-california-michigan-illinois-fatal-car-crashes/

    unless it's the other 24 states that CBS did not reach out to.

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    CBS News reached out to 26 states with a historically high number of traffic deaths, and found that fatal car crashes on California freeways dropped a stunning 84%

     

  5. The Economy and The Markets (where are we, where are we heading, and what does it mean for the QC...)

    in Charlotte Coffee House

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    12 minutes ago, gman430 said:

    Trump wants to reopen the economy by Easter: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-response-trump-wants-to-reopen-us-economy-by-easter.html Excellent. :) 

    That's a difficult thing to predict. If new cases were to peak sometime this week, I can see him getting away with "re-opening by Easter". That is a BIG "if".

    On the other hand there is a lot of people that are actually suffering from the consequences already, the longer this drags on the bigger the after shocks will last, so I can see why he is eager to re-open, but wishful thinking is not going to make the virus disappear

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  6. The Bad News Report

    in Charlotte

    Posted · Edited by Scribe

    I am not affiliated with any political party for many reasons. Here is another example why I will remain unaffiliated for the foreseeable future:

    2 articles on the same subject:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-bailout-mcconnell-congress.html

    https://nypost.com/2020/03/23/republicans-want-a-lifeline-democrats-want-to-remake-the-country/

    The NY Post one actually might be closer to reality, but when you have a chasm that large, hard to get a result that wont be full of pet projects.:tw_rage:

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  8. Charlotte Center City Streetcar Network

    in Charlotte

    Posted · Edited by Scribe

    22 minutes ago, NYtoCLT said:

    (1) The city needs to make sure it runs frequently enough where it is actually reliable.

    (2) It is synced with traffic lights where it can go through to decrease wait times.

    (3) Development is encouraged to be relatively dense around the ends (Hopefully the pool suppl on Hawthorne and Central gets built up soon and the area around French St. sees more density pop up).

    I would say the one thing that will make our streetcar useful (in addition to your points above) is to lock down  the lanes to car traffic where there are multiple lanes lock one lane, otherwise just lock it down completely like San Fran's market street is... https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/market-street-san-francisco-car-free-now/index.html

     

    At least within the I-277/I-77 loop?!  (it is 1.5 miles from McDowell St to I-77, surely we can do that? 1 mile from McDovell to Graham St.)

     

    If you have not seen people's parking skills block the trolley for 30-45 minutes in Elizabeth, that is a sight to behold.

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  10. Charlotte Center City Streetcar Network

    in Charlotte

    Posted · Edited by Scribe

    3 hours ago, kermit said:

    Some casual analysis of modern streetcar system performance in the US.

    Let us un-torture this data...

    Where do we begin:

    1. RAIL Magazine uses $26.3 million for the construction of Phase 1
      • CATS says it cost  $36.99 million
      • In July 2010, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded the City of Charlotte $24.99 million from the Urban Circulator Grant to construct the first operational segment of the project. The remaining $12 million came from City funds including a Pay-As-You-Go and debt service.
      • https://charlottenc.gov/cats/transit-planning/gold-line/Pages/phase-one.aspx
    2. That makes all their numbers suspect...
      • we are more expensive than Dallas per mile
      • we are more expensive than Kansas City per rider
    3. It gets more fun when you take the cost of Phase 1 + 2 together $36.99 mill + $150 mill = $186.99 million for 4 miles of streetcar
      • $46.75 million per mile
      • that will make as 12th on the list between KC and Tucson
    4. Lastly, funny to use any ridership numbers for Charlotte as the streetcar has now been fully suspended for almost 9 months, but they needed to tell a story.

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  11. The Bad News Report

    in Charlotte

    Posted

    There is now confirmation that Brighthouse Financial sent everyone home today.

    Someone is being tested for COVID-19 from their Charlotte office. The hysteria is really not helpful, but that is all I see happening.:tw_dissapointed_relieved:

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  18. Charlotte-Douglas Airport (CLT) Expansion

    in Charlotte

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    22 hours ago, gman430 said:

    What if I purchased my ticket BEFORE March 1st and am scheduled to travel overseas during this potential pandemic? Am I pretty much screwed?

    The “waiving change fee” should be for anybody traveling between those dates not just for people who purchased tickets then. 

    I am in this boat, have a booked trip to Turkey in June and right now have no clue what will actually happen with that trip.

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  19. Traffic Congestion and Highway Construction

    in Charlotte

    Posted

    I don't want Charlotte to be anything like Atlanta... I like the current pace of development in the QC.  We  don't have to fit some mold of development that was used elsewhere.

    I feel like Charlotte might finally be getting out of the funk of trying to compare itself to Atlanta for EVERY single point of discussion (a la late '90s into '00s)

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  20. History of Charlotte

    in Charlotte

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    I did not know where else to put this, it is neither good nor bad news (or it could be good or bad) depending on how you look at it. But this is part of Charlotte History.

    Wilgrove Airport is shutting down and land is being redeveloped. https://www.wfae.org/post/bizworthy-charlotte-s-2nd-airport-closing-yes-charlotte-has-second-airport

     

    I used to take flight lessons there in the mid 2000's. In fact my personal shortest flight ever is from this airport to the Monroe Executive (and the return trip).

    It's not much of an airport, mainly single props, but it was the only flight school in the city of Charlotte!

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  21. Cap over Belk Freeway (277)

    in Charlotte

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    7 minutes ago, kermit said:

    Funding for 277 removal seems straightforward, either use a tiff strategy or just finance costs by selling a portion of the land.

    Capping on the other hand....

    This thread is for capping, I would love to know how one would fund it and still get the support of the majority of QC citizens.

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  24. Misc. Uptown Projects/News

    in Charlotte

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    My question about the deed restrictions.

    If your goal is to get more affordable housing built NOW, aren't those restrictions good enough to accomplish what you want?

    Yes, you lose ownership of the land (which I know you can use as collateral for debt, etc) but if the organizations stated mission is affordable housing and deed restrictions guarantee that there will always be affordable housing on that land, what is the actual drawback?

    I do not think we are getting all the info here.

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