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Old 12-13-2009, 04:51 PM
 
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Anybody else affected by the Wal Triana closing from Capshaw to 72? It's killing my work commute, adding 15-20 minutes, with all the traffic squeezing down County Line Road/Old Rail Road, Balch, and Nance.

Anybody figure out a clever way to get around it besides leaving at 6AM or 9?
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Old 12-13-2009, 05:49 PM
 
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Any idea on how long the road will be closed? It is a major pain, but I leave the house before 6:00am.
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Old 12-13-2009, 06:17 PM
 
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Ran into that last night trying to go to a party. Tried to go north up Old RR Bed, but:
Toney couple killed in wreck Saturday off U.S. 72 | Breaking News from The Huntsville Times - al.com
Cut back down US72 and up Wall Triana and the bridge was out. Ugh!
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Old 12-14-2009, 07:32 AM
 
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Anybody else affected by the Wal Triana closing from Capshaw to 72? It's killing my work commute, adding 15-20 minutes, with all the traffic squeezing down County Line Road/Old Rail Road, Balch, and Nance.

Anybody figure out a clever way to get around it besides leaving at 6AM or 9?
Yep, it's a pain and it just shows exactly how much traffic travels on Wall-Triana. I don't have a good way around it, except maybe continuing to head north and using one of those East/West roads like Nick Davis to get past it all before heading South. Nance, Old RR Bed and Balch seem to stay stacked up as does McCrary and Capshaw. I've seen it backed up at all times (since I'm often out in the middle of the day) so I'm guessing the traditional commute times are a real mess. Ugh.
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Old 12-14-2009, 12:59 PM
 
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Given all that was said above about traffic congestion in Madison County (north of 72), it still baffles me why they have not widened the roads already - given that was mostly farmland until 4-5 yrs ago and they knew the population influx that way will only grow. They allowed new construction relatively close to the existent roads with very little wiggle room for widening (except eminent domain that would cut into people's front yard). How easy would have been to do that on undeveloped farmland when it still existed?! Insert adjective here (for county road planners)!!
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Old 12-14-2009, 05:21 PM
 
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Did Knox Creek finally get the Wall-Triana bridge? It did that to Balch Road, some years ago. It was closed for about four months. I was living in the Knox Creek subdivision then, and we had to drive a long way out of the way to get to 72.
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Old 12-14-2009, 08:09 PM
 
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That took 4 months! WOW I would go crazy.

I don't understand the lack of road and infrastructure pre planning either. I lived in Houston for 15 years, and they were always way WAY ahead on the development of road, sewage, utilities etc, and even FIOS networks.

I know Madison is fully capable of such pre-planning as I've seen it when I lived here in the early 90s on the SE side when Bailey Cove and Jones Valley exploded with development. Another example is Hampton Cove. The've done a pretty darn good job of keeping up over there.

Perhaps it's good ol' politics at play. Maybe Griffith can kiss up for some "Stimulus" money.

I sent and email to inquire on the status from this Madison County site:

Planning and Economic Development

Doubt I'll get a response. I sent it from my @us.army.mil email instead of my yahoo so hopefully it at least gets read.
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Old 12-14-2009, 08:22 PM
 
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Well, we might get a gas station on Balch and Gillespie if the new zoning goes through December 17th... great timing for people with families and given the holiday season. Hmmm.... things that make you go hmmm?

I see a McD's on that corner driving down homeowner values soon. Welcome to "it's convenient to shopping" lingo real soon.
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Old 12-14-2009, 09:54 PM
 
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Maybe I should have sent my email to the City and not the county so I sent another to

http://www.ci.madison.al.us/index.aspx?NID=71

"Current" projects:
http://www.ci.madison.al.us/DocumentView.aspx?DID=625
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Old 12-15-2009, 07:00 AM
 
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I don't understand the lack of road and infrastructure pre planning either. I lived in Houston for 15 years, and they were always way WAY ahead on the development of road, sewage, utilities etc, and even FIOS networks.

I know Madison is fully capable of such pre-planning as I've seen it when I lived here in the early 90s on the SE side when Bailey Cove and Jones Valley exploded with development. Another example is Hampton Cove. The've done a pretty darn good job of keeping up over there.
I think Madison is actually doing a fairly good job of urban planning given what they have to work with. (no real industry to form a tax base, thousands of residents who want low taxes yet also want great roads with no traffic on them) It seems to be the county roads that have a lot of the problems (and a lot of traffic)

The "county commission" structure that is in place in Madison County seems very strange to me. There is so much competition between Huntsville, Madison City and Madison County and it seems as though these county commissioners aren't necessarily in a position to represent their constituents very well because of the commission structure and district lines. The more I learn about this "commission" the more I don't like it. Most of the commissioners seem to be a bunch of local yokels, too, and you probably couldn't blast them out of office if you tried.

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Perhaps it's good ol' politics at play. Maybe Griffith can kiss up for some "Stimulus" money.
When you pay low/no taxes (and Alabamians typically don't like taxes) then you aren't going to have money for things like roads and infrastructure.

When apparently all you know to do is raise the sales tax (very regressive) and then a high percentage of that goes to fund schools, then you aren't going to have money for things like infrastructure. I'm not anti-education, btw.

When you have such economic disparity that a handful of counties (like Madison County) prop up the rest of the state, then you aren't going to have money for things like infrastructure, especially if your legislative representation is relatively weak compared to others (ever notice how nice the roads are in some areas of the state where the legislators hold a lot of influence)

Getting back to the Wall Triana closure, I certainly hope it will not be closed for four months. That will be insane. Though I do remember about 4-5 years ago when they had several things going on at one time (traffic circle construction, work on Blake Bottom at Indian Creek, trying to fix the four way stop debacle at Nance and Capshaw--maybe some others) and Monrovia roads were a mess for what seemed like forever.
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