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To answer the mystery to why there is a Terminal C and Terminal A. When the airport was designed there were plans to have 3 terminals. Terminal A and C on opposite sides(the current configuration) and terminal B would be where the current control tower sits. Its runways would've overlapped perpendicularly to the current runways or just merge with the other two. This was scratched from the original plans and was to be used for future development.
It would be something for the airport to eventually need a 3rd terminal, but I don't think it would ever happen.
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BTW, the Pullen roundabout works very well.
They work well for cars...however, pedestrians still have an uneasy time crossing them. Most cars don't know to yield to pedestrians, so they stand there and wait for no cars. Some times during the day that is real difficult.
This would need to be a problem considering there is way more pedestrian crossers on Hillsborough St. vs. Pullen Rd.
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This won't happen. The city just spent about $3M on upgrading the road with turn lanes, curbing, sidewalks, etc., and besides, it runs right thru the NCSU area which isn't the proper context for a freeway. A superstreet might do the trick though.
Did i say freeway, i meant to say superstreet.
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I'm not sure about this mass move to round abouts.... I think the city would be better off dropping a light rail down Hillsborough....
I agree, but it will never happen. Street rail would be awesome and people would ride it all day I think.
What is $3million dollars going to do. That is barely enough to do a signal upgrade. I don't get it, but I guess you have to start somewhere.
A list of city improvements(pack-man style):
1. bury power lines
2. replace all sidewalks
3. add nice lighting
4. add trees
5. turn Western BLVD. into a freeway
6. storefront facade grants
7. assist with ABC permits for restaurants, bars
8. shut the University Park residents up (they should move or get it through their heads that their home value will skyrocket with these improvements)
9. add parking to both sides.
10. cobblestone some portions
11. ban tacky store awnings (bell tower mart, wolfmart)
just a couple of things off the top of my head.
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Yeah, how do we lose out to Richmond,VA That city is beat with crime and what not. Raleigh would be a much more desirable place. Oh well, we'll get someone else.
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5 years is a bad #. Glenwood South started coming together in the late 90's
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The only time the word park should be used with this project is to use it in the sentence "a park type feel" Raleigh doesn't need another park, it needs smart development. This would be a sick place to build high end residential with mix-retail "with a park type atmosphere" No one is going to go the Dix campus if it is just another nature park.
"Theme Park" would work too I guess with a massive roller coaster, I'd take that.
I say just build a Minor League Baseball Stadium and move the Bulls, or get a new team and make the Bulls leave.
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I mentioned this same thing earlier in the thread when they were tearing up Hillsborough St. It is pretty cool to think that street cars were running up and down these streets. It would be pretty cool if they still had them.
I think they should get them back!
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I heard there is an indoor pool there.
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when originally constructed it sat along the dirt road known as Avent Ford (Avent Ferry) Road. Avent Ferry has since been relocated and a abandoned portion of old Avent Ford lies between Dorothea Dix and the Catholic property. You could probably take a metal detector out there and find all kinds of crazy stuff. Casual employees of Dix have many civil war relics but since Dix was originally a colonial plantation it likely would yield artifacts from that era as well.
I ride my bike up that old road all the time to get to Centennial Campus. It is a long straght uphill road with power lines along it. I always thought that it was an old CP&L service road. Its great to learn all these old things.
My own story, while they were burying the power lines on Hillsborough Street between St. Mary's and Glenwood I watched the workers cutting wood and what looked to be an old railroad track. I did a little searching and realized that it was the old street car line that use to run along Hillsborough St. I guess they just repave over and over. I say we dig it out and use it!!! How cool would that be, a street tram from the Capital to NCSU. The tracks are already there, could be cheap. TTA, any thoughts, could be a great first mass transit scheme
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