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I was just looking at that with some coworkers who live in Apex - that's going to be one expensive project. Curious how they handle that railroad bridge.
I feel like that will really open up expansion opportunities in Apex. When we were looking here, we were always told to avoid anything south of the lane drop, and for good reason.
I was just looking at that with some coworkers who live in Apex - that's going to be one expensive project. Curious how they handle that railroad bridge.
WRAL said (and I always understood this to be true) that they can't do much. The railroad owns it, and is not willing to spend the money, so it likely will be limited to a 3-lane choke-point.
The same news article said that it might start as soon as 2021, so it's got a ways to go before fruition.
I'd like to see them punch through the rest of Apex Peakway. Everytime I say that, someone links an article telling me how it's happening, but it seems to the two places (near Williams Street on the East, and Old US1) are far from seeing any activity. To me, the Peakway would open up a lot, much like Maynard in Cary, and would make everything inside it accessible. It would create the environment for a vibrant small-town downtown scene.
Yeah I'm interested to see how the choke-point will work out with 4-lane sections on either side of the bridge.
I also can see right of way being an issue and adding to the cost of the project since it's pretty well built up on both sides of the road already - and they want to add bike lanes/multi-use path.
Everytime I say that, someone links an article telling me how it's happening, but it seems to the two places (near Williams Street on the East, and Old US1) are far from seeing any activity.
The new US1 bridge has been seeing lots of activity in the last 6 months. It's just that it's the sort of activity you won't see outside of meeting rooms at town hall since it mostly consists of preparing and accepting various reports which are required before work can start.
You'll probably see earth being moved sometime in 2019.
I can't believe they're thinking about doing this without replacing the railroad bridge.
It won't help with traffic South of the bridge, but with everything planned to be built in the area of the Salem Street exit off 540 there's quite a bit of value in widening it from Olive Chapel to Salem. I think this is a case where you shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Yeah I'm interested to see how the choke-point will work out with 4-lane sections on either side of the bridge.
I also can see right of way being an issue and adding to the cost of the project since it's pretty well built up on both sides of the road already - and they want to add bike lanes/multi-use path.
I just thought of this now, but here's an interesting solution:
I'm told they can support three lanes. It would be cool to do one in each direction, and the center lane with ligths (kinda like near PNC Arena) that change directions depending on the traffic. Norm is center turn lane, and it can be changed to uni-directional at various rush hours.
Not perfect, but that's the best scenario I could imagine, short of a partial or total reroute.
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