ONE STEP AT A TIME FOR WILLIAMS RESCUE
June 9th council meeting also provided a recap of the history behind Williams Rescue Road. Having listened to it, I feel very safe in the fact that a lot of things have been going on and a lot of people playing a role so much so that certain details become very garbled. Even though, the council authorized staff to start implementation of Public involvement in the process (without going through MUMPO though they will advise and observe the process.) Nothing else has been authorized but some things should be considered when going forward. Important note: Forget the past what happened a few years ago with this road should be forgotten. Look at the now and future.
1. $25 million price tag (approximate)
2. Primary stated reason: Get traffic off Indian Trail Road and make it more pedestrian friendly.
3. Primary UNSTATED reason: If traffic volume lessens on Indian Trail Road maybe the Harrell Moser project will get a favorable road study? What with the 600+ residences they have scheduled.
4. Traffic at both ends of Williams Rescue Road will still dump on to Monroe and 74 that currently have traffic levels that severely overcrowded.
5. NO APPARENT RELIEF IN SITE FOR OLD MONROE AND 74.
6. NO TELLING WHEN BYPASS (IF EVER) WILL BE BUILT.
7. Traffic will increase on Chestnut, Potters, and Weddington Road. (Which helps Austin village greatly)
8. No money in DOT, Town, State, Federal for building this road. NCDOT has no road money for new projects and the town has only about 2million in Powell bill funds. DOT repair money depleted by 6 mill due to MR.Black. for road in Meckenburg County.
9. Williams Rescue Road will do no good if you can't severely limit the access on that road. In order to get developers to build the road, they will want something in return, USUALLY HIGER DENSITY for housing projects. Way too many in pipeline now.
posted by Lee Godwin at
8:19 PM
2 Comments:
first off, thank you for allowing the public to voice their opinions on this site. second how ironic none of the public chooses to chime in on the blogs, looks like a one man show thus far. and are we missing the utmost important thing to consider with this whole road ordeal. live safety and property conservation. lets say the local fire dept is tied up on the opposite side of the railroad tracks and heaven forbid a fire comes out on lets say potters road. by coincidence a train has blocked both routes through indian trail and stallings the fireman can take. what will be said on the response times of the fire dept and the pure horror of watching your own house burn down due to the ignorance of a few individuals who are against the road that would by-pass all railroad crossings and allow easy fire department acess. please forgive me for not using correct grammar as im a first time blogger
Dear Anonymous...it is too bad you chose not to share your name, but your post does make sense and is a valid concern...no one is denying the road makes sense for safety reasons. There are a lot of decisions that have to be made and a lot of factors that have to be taken into consideration. Would it be cheaper to have a fire house on the other side of the tracks? I imagine it could be less than $25 million. I think the council has shown a good first step in getting the public input to this decision, and wouldn't necessarily call it ignorance about being cautious.
So far you are correct this has been a one man show so far, but it is still new and I have had trouble getting some of the comments posted but I am working on the bugs. In the future I would hope you could provide your name...your post was good but without validation Iam not sure posts in the future will be accepted. Thanks.
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