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Hi, All!
How is the commute from say, Flowers Plantation, Riverwood, or Glen Laurel to RTP?
Should be closing on the sale of our Orange County, NY house in 2 weeks!
I'm coming off of a 2 hour one-way commute in NY. Not sure about the schools yet, but they look OK, any input would be appreciated. I was looking around Wilmington, but the tech jobs are slim pickins down there...
Hi, All!
How is the commute from say, Flowers Plantation, Riverwood, or Glen Laurel to RTP?
Should be closing on the sale of our Orange County, NY house in 2 weeks!
I'm coming off of a 2 hour one-way commute in NY. Not sure about the schools yet, but they look OK, any input would be appreciated. I was looking around Wilmington, but the tech jobs are slim pickins down there...
You drove two hours to work everyday?? Wow, your drive from Flowers Plantation to RTP will be a cake walk!
I thinking your drive will be around 40 minutes maybe. Maybe a bit less. This is would be becaue of some what heavy traffic.
Over an hour won't be good. I'm looking for a better quality of life than I have now.
We keep hearing that Wake schools are so overcrowded, so we are looking to other counties.
Over an hour won't be good. I'm looking for a better quality of life than I have now.
We keep hearing that Wake schools are so overcrowded, so we are looking to other counties.
Well just about every county here has growth issues for the schools. Even Johnston is...their problems are catching up to Wake too.
Another option for you is Orange County...the amount of traffic going into RTP from the west is less than from the east. ChapelHill/Carrboro is expensive in the towns (although they have the best schools), but Hillsborough is much less expensive. From there, I'd say a trip to RTP would be aprox 40-50 min, or less, shortcutting thru downtown Durham along NC 147. 65mph pretty much the entire trip.
I'm thinking closer to an hour, to an hour-fifteen on a normal workday. Traffic can be pretty unpredictable on I-40 during rush hours.
I agree with this estimate. We are in Apex and it can easily take 45 minutes to get to RTP during rush hour from here. Clayton is about 30 minutes from here, so I think RaleighRob's estimate is right on the money.
Google maps gives about 40Mi from Clayton to RTP. Does 50 minutes driving + 20 minutes sitting in traffic on 40 sound like a typical commute?
Absolutely. I-40 going into RTP from points Eastward is a major clog on rush hours.
More than half of my friends who work in RTP live in Durham, and it's completely different. They get there in less than 15 minutes sometimes. One in Chapel Hill gets there in about 25 minutes.
But from the east, you got people coming in from Raleigh, Cary, Knightdale, Garner, Clayton, etc etc. A much larger volume for the road to handle.
In addition, there's a big part of 40 just on the west end of Raleigh where it's still only 2 lanes each way.
Driving the beltline in rush hour traffic was a nightmare in 1991 when I was doing it. Or should I say coming in through Knightdale was a nightmare. If you are coming in through Clayton you will already be on the beltline when you hit the city limits unless they have moved some things since I was up there. I came in through Selma and Clayton during 1989-1991 and it was congested but nothing like commuting from Kenly through Wendell and Knightdale. Hopefully the roads aren't as bad in places as they were. But I use to leave Selma and make it to Edenton St. in about an hour even back then. Once I got off the beltline at Person Street, it wasn't too bad. I can't remember it ever taking more than an hour from Exit 101 off Hwy 95 in Selma to Edenton Street after exiting onto Person Street from the beltline. Well, not unless there was a wreck or something like that. I got side tracked near a road right out of Clayton once and it took a while to get to work but that was not the usual.
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. I'm looking for a better quality of life than I have now.
