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The hundreds of residents and dozens of businesses between the belt line, Lake Boone Trail, Blue Ridge Road, and the NCMA are increasingly frustrated with a lack of right-of-way exit from (and at certain times of the day entrance into) the community. Our subdivision main entrance--no left turn allowed and right turns must yield to oncoming traffic AND u-turnning traffic. Harden--left turns impossible most times, right turns yield. Nancy Ann--left turns impossible most times, right turns yield. How do we go about requesting stoplights at Blue Ridge/Harden, Nancy Ann/Lake Boone, and Myron/Lake Boone and what volume of traffic would be required? Harden is being used as a through street/short cut off of Blue Ridge to avoid the light at Lake Boone Trail.
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Acknowledged City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
Susan (Guest)
Maureen Aarons (Guest)
Susan (Guest)
If a full traffic study is done, they should note:
1) Intersection with Harden/Blue Ridge/SECU driveway--very difficult lines of sight from Blue Ridge traveling S and attempting turn onto Harden, and exiting Harden and attempting (an almost impossible) left turn onto Blue Ridge. Cars traveling from the SECU exit often try to turn left onto Blue Ridge or even drive straight through four lanes. Many vehicles going straight or turning in that intersection often use the tactic of just pulling into traffic and making the flow of traffic stop. There is no place to sit in the middle. With a 45 mph speed limit, it's a dangerous proposition to do anything other than turn right, then do a u-turn at the Lake Boone Trail stop light. Further, the painted lines on Harden are virtually invisible now.
2) Intersection at Nancy Ann/Lake Boone/Landmark--we've heard of and seen a number of accidents. Those attempting left turns from Landmark or Nancy Ann onto LBT often pull on out and get into the center lanes--which are actually reserved for turning people on LBT. I see it happen every single day. There are no medians so it is difficult for turning traffic to see the lanes.
3) Myron at Lake Boone Trail--residents and businesses exiting may not exit left and must yield to oncoming traffic moving in three lanes AND u-turning traffic. The u-turning traffic does not seem to be aware of traffic exiting Meredith Woods, do very long, slow, wide u-turns. If several cars are queued up to make u-turns, then traffic in the flow lane on LBT backs up past the stoplight and traffic trying to exit Myron just doesn't have an opportunity, there is no break in the traffic.
A lot of traffic at all three intersections is "visiting" and not familiar with the traffic patterns--people at the hospital, various medical offices, and other businesses.
I hope our neighborhood will be able to review the comprehensive report of these three intersections when that is complete. Thank you.
SusanG (Guest)
City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
Susan (Guest)
City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
SusanG (Guest)
Please send copy of study to: spg@bellsouth.net
City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
SusanG (Guest)
Closed City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
Reopened SusanG (Guest)
Acknowledged City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
Cathy Brawner (Registered User)
1) Make the left turn light longer so that all of the people in the left turn lane can clear the intersection
2) At low traffic times (e.g., Sunday mornings, late evenings), make the left turn arrow "trip" when someone wants to turn and there is no oncoming traffic.
3) Allow unprotected left turns (blinking yellow arrow?) all the time or at least at certain times of day when people are waiting to turn left and there is no oncoming traffic. Could be solved with the trip light as well.
These three things would probably keep people from going through the neighborhoods and solve the other problems in this discussion stream
ncjks (Registered User)
Closed City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)
The flashing yellow arrow was being installed at Macon Pone not Lake Boone. The flashing yellow arrow for Lake Boone is yet to be determined.
The intersection stays in coordination plans Monday through Saturday until 10:00 pm and that is when it goes into free run and will work on demand until 6:00 am.
On Sunday’s it stays in free run until 11:00 am and then in coordination. The coordination for the rest of the day has a cycle length of 140 second throughout the day till 10:00 pm.
The intersection stays in coordination due to the amount of traffic on the corridor.
Blue Ridge and Harden was studied and reviewed by the City of Raleigh’s Senior Transportation Engineer and signalization is not recommended. This was posted in the See click fix forum on 8/7/13.
Lake Boone and Nancy Ann/ Landmark are in the queue to be studied along with the others and shall be reviewed. It was on hold due to upcoming construction in the area that might help resolve the issue but the City has learned recently it would not. We will be continuing to work this issue and will continuously monitor for improvements.
Thanks to all for their concern with the safe and efficient movement of traffic.
ncjks (Registered User)
City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)