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Folks from Spartanburg, Anderson, Greenwood, etc....all come to Greenville for shopping. Outside of Greenville, there is not much to offer shoppers in the upstate.
G-Man, I have asked myself the same question. Lo and behold - I ended up having to travel at that time on Woodruff Road this year. I kept telling myself "At least it's not Charlotte." I used to live in Charlotte, and it was much worse.
It appears to me that the biggest problem we have on Woodruff Road this time of year is gridlock. People won't keep the intersections clear. Sometimes it is hard to gauge whether or not the traffic is moving at a pace that will allow clear passage through an intersection, but gridlock can be avoided if one just slows down and surveys the situation before proceeding through an intersection.
I went turned on to Woodruff Road at 515pm Christmas Eve to go to Trader Joes. There was no traffic. You just have to time it right and wait until the absolute last minute to shop.
G-Man, I have asked myself the same question. Lo and behold - I ended up having to travel at that time on Woodruff Road this year. I kept telling myself "At least it's not Charlotte." I used to live in Charlotte, and it was much worse.
It appears to me that the biggest problem we have on Woodruff Road this time of year is gridlock. People won't keep the intersections clear. Sometimes it is hard to gauge whether or not the traffic is moving at a pace that will allow clear passage through an intersection, but gridlock can be avoided if one just slows down and surveys the situation before proceeding through an intersection.
Yes! Many people are not courteous when driving here. At the intersection of Roper Mountain and Woodruff, already too short a light, I had to wait through about 5 cycles to go straight even though there were not that many cars in front of me. People turning left onto Woodruff from Roper Mountain just kept coming even though the light had already turned red.
I went turned on to Woodruff Road at 515pm Christmas Eve to go to Trader Joes. There was no traffic. You just have to time it right and wait until the absolute last minute to shop.
I went Christmas shopping in Simpsonville on Christmas Eve morning, at Belk, Kohl's, Walmart, and Target. It was quick and convenient compared to Woodruff Rd. and Haywood Mall. As I went to Macy's the previous Saturday and it was congested. I think it is nice how Belk has the smaller stores in the suburbs if you want to avoid the crowds at Haywood. Now we just need another Best Buy somewhere to avoid Woodruff Rd, as Greenridge has very bad access and is extremely congested.
A better question would be- Why did the planners put all of the shopping on ONE road? Parts of the upstate are starting to resemble the area we left in FL, with little or no thought apparently given to growth; just build stuff wherever. We hit Woodruff about once a month, and get there at 8AM on Saturday. We're gone by about 10 or so.
Traffic flow around Greenridge was easy when compared to Magnolia Park this holiday season. Saturday evenings seemed especially bad and more than a few shops and restaurants are still under construction. I consider Woodruff Road a perfect example of TERRIBLE planning by a city that takes pride in decades of superior urban revitalization. It may take decades of headaches and missing out on larger economic development opportunities before that corridor will see significant improvement.
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Traffic flow around Greenridge was easy when compared to Magnolia Park this holiday season. Saturday evenings seemed especially bad and more than a few shops and restaurants are still under construction. I consider Woodruff Road a perfect example of TERRIBLE planning by a city that takes pride in decades of superior urban revitalization. It may take decades of headaches and missing out on larger economic development opportunities before that corridor will see significant improvement.
The city annexed a lot of this after it was built up including Greenridge. Put the blame on the county if anybody deserves it.
Greenville goes in cycles. Once they catch up the infrastructure on Woodruff Road, the businesses will abandon it for the next new "in" location.
Wade Hampton Blvd. was once the "in" location, then the old Greenville Mall area, then Laurens Road, then Haywood, now it's Woodruff Road (ironically, near the abandoned Greenville Mall).
If you could predict the next "in" spot in town, you could make some significant money.
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