Triangle Expressway to start by Year End (Toll Road)

[geoff2v]

Originally Posted by Dire Wolf

Those 20-year old houses are not sitting empty. As long as this area keeps growing, the new folks have to have somewhere to live. New homes have to built.

If only it were possible to accommodate more people in less space... Nope, I guess everyone needs their half acre!

[saturnfan]

Originally Posted by geoff2v

If only it were possible to accommodate more people in less space... Nope, I guess everyone needs their half acre!

Multi-family living is the answer. Combine that with rail and you have something.

The trend to housing in RTP is a good idea too.

[Dire Wolf]

Originally Posted by geoff2v

If only it were possible to accommodate more people in less space... Nope, I guess everyone needs their half acre!

That stuff still does not exist on any massive scale, so you'd have to build it somewhere. And then watch as people avoid it and live elsewhere.

[geoff2v]

Originally Posted by Dire Wolf

That stuff still does not exist on any massive scale, so you'd have to build it somewhere. And then watch as people avoid it and live elsewhere.

The densely populated, urban, multifamily areas are so expensive and crowded, no one wants to live there anymore!

[KellyCrash]

i'd rather a toll road near my kids school than my house. do you think there are any chances of them putting up those concrete walls like the did along rt 1 in cary? they'd have to do something to ensure safety around a school.

[aldamon]

Originally Posted by NewUser

Take a look at the map on page 14 of this document:

http://www.ncturnpike.org/pdf/Client...venueStudy.pdf

The toll booths are marked with black rectangles. I see 4 major toll booths (the kind that stretch over the entire road) and 3 exit/entrance ramp toll booths along the 18 mile length from NC 54 down to the NC 55 bypass in Holly Springs.

Thank you. I looked at the map NC Turnpike Authority and thought they were adding a toll to go on 540 from 54 to 40.

[papilgee4evaeva]

Originally Posted by aldamon

Thank you. I looked at the map NC Turnpike Authority and thought they were adding a toll to go on 540 from 54 to 40.

As did I.

I looked back through that document and noted that this will be a cashless toll road (which I already knew). That should (hopefully) assuage concerns about traffic backups during peak times.

I also like that NCTA realizes that they won't be able to collect tolls from everybody due to technical limitations. So unless traffic projections are majorly exceeded, they won't lose money that way since it's already accounted for.