Thanks again Nikki! Yes, and those poor people turning on to Hester, and sitting attempting to get in to KFC, there is NO turning lane for them so everyone turning left sits in the intersection. The sage road traffic light allows three cars out, possibly 4 if you can get people off of their phones. Why is there still NO turn lane coming out of McDonalds? Yeesh! Some times of the day you can only be aggressive to get through! We shouldn’t be forced in to that mode of driving.
Before anymore building is considered, I’d love to see some improvement to roads BEFORE something else comes along industrial or residential. Raymond Hirsch backs up almost to Papa Johns some mornings because of bad flow there. There are these spots all over town that work against each other.
I worked in a retail planning environment for years, you can look at numbers all you want, and draw many conclusions on paper to sell your argument, but it isn’t until you go in to the store and realize they have no room to display what you’re attempting to push in, or you aren’t sending enough to fill the display unit the does reality ever hit. Worked great on paper, but it never fit the 150 stores you were called to support. You can’t just send you goods based on your best selling scenario and think it does well for the other 149.
They need to get out during peak hours and drive these areas. Getting a left on to 31 from Colorado Grill is a nightmare at 6 p.m. You can’t do it, you can go right and hopefully wind your way through back roads to get over to the other side of town, if you can get someone to break the line and let you through. I questioned last year or the year before, some of the members on these boards didn’t actually live in city limits. I think Mandy said a rule was in process for changing that, I hope that it happened. I believe it did. I think it’s a good group of people, they just need to be out and about being witness to these issues, and get things going on putting the pieces in place to make the flow work. The more we see them working against the mayor, and traffic woes continue, they’ll just be replaced.
The board rules have have changed from regional to municipal. They all live in the city limits. The real issue is that the majority of them are retired and don't have to deal with the traffic in the same ways that many of us do. I think the mayor is the only one up there with a child still in the school system. The traffic throughout the city is a mess and on its way to getting worse. I think that with a new mayor, we will be on the path to seeing improvements or at least requiring developers to pay for improvements. In the meantime, the things already approved are going to make it messy for all of us.
Once again, board approved the project with only Mayor Corbitt voting no. Can the incoming Mayor make new appointments? When I read your notes, I could not believe that board voted to approve. So many things up in the air, undecided, and they approve? And, I agree about placing more residential units near “industrial” businesses….just doesn’t mix well.
They pretty much have to at this point. The zoning is "by right." It seems they could hold out until the RCEDB has the right of way and the road settled. The entire area is about to be a bigger mess.
Thanks again Nikki! Yes, and those poor people turning on to Hester, and sitting attempting to get in to KFC, there is NO turning lane for them so everyone turning left sits in the intersection. The sage road traffic light allows three cars out, possibly 4 if you can get people off of their phones. Why is there still NO turn lane coming out of McDonalds? Yeesh! Some times of the day you can only be aggressive to get through! We shouldn’t be forced in to that mode of driving.
Before anymore building is considered, I’d love to see some improvement to roads BEFORE something else comes along industrial or residential. Raymond Hirsch backs up almost to Papa Johns some mornings because of bad flow there. There are these spots all over town that work against each other.
I worked in a retail planning environment for years, you can look at numbers all you want, and draw many conclusions on paper to sell your argument, but it isn’t until you go in to the store and realize they have no room to display what you’re attempting to push in, or you aren’t sending enough to fill the display unit the does reality ever hit. Worked great on paper, but it never fit the 150 stores you were called to support. You can’t just send you goods based on your best selling scenario and think it does well for the other 149.
They need to get out during peak hours and drive these areas. Getting a left on to 31 from Colorado Grill is a nightmare at 6 p.m. You can’t do it, you can go right and hopefully wind your way through back roads to get over to the other side of town, if you can get someone to break the line and let you through. I questioned last year or the year before, some of the members on these boards didn’t actually live in city limits. I think Mandy said a rule was in process for changing that, I hope that it happened. I believe it did. I think it’s a good group of people, they just need to be out and about being witness to these issues, and get things going on putting the pieces in place to make the flow work. The more we see them working against the mayor, and traffic woes continue, they’ll just be replaced.
The board rules have have changed from regional to municipal. They all live in the city limits. The real issue is that the majority of them are retired and don't have to deal with the traffic in the same ways that many of us do. I think the mayor is the only one up there with a child still in the school system. The traffic throughout the city is a mess and on its way to getting worse. I think that with a new mayor, we will be on the path to seeing improvements or at least requiring developers to pay for improvements. In the meantime, the things already approved are going to make it messy for all of us.
Once again, board approved the project with only Mayor Corbitt voting no. Can the incoming Mayor make new appointments? When I read your notes, I could not believe that board voted to approve. So many things up in the air, undecided, and they approve? And, I agree about placing more residential units near “industrial” businesses….just doesn’t mix well.
They pretty much have to at this point. The zoning is "by right." It seems they could hold out until the RCEDB has the right of way and the road settled. The entire area is about to be a bigger mess.
Basically approving projects based on verbal agreements with landowners
Is there a reason they don’t connect with the Lowes roadway and exit onto Hwy 76 closer to I65
What was discussed was the stream on Hester and and the traffic already on Hester.