New School on Andrews Store Road

[Fort]

Is there a person in charge of city planning in Pittsboro? I ask because there is a nice new school on Andrews Store Road, but now there are school buses, parent driven SUVs, and gravel/ construction trucks creating, what seems to be, a dangerous driving situation on a very skinny road. It seems like you would want to improve the infrastructure before adding new buildings that will increase road usage. What if any little kids want to walk to school? I've seen some of those SUVs driving - they already don't know what to do when a pot hole comes up because their car is too wide to move without going in the other lane. I'm probably too picky, but it seems like road improvement would have been a good first step.

[whatsup]

Is there a person in charge of city planning in Pittsboro?

I think the Woods School is located outside of Pittsboro and it falls under Chatham County planning jurisdiction.

Don't know why you think there is a traffic problem We were told there would be NO traffic problems when the Briar Chapel development was going through the approval process. 

[dkemom2]

Well this is EXACTLY what we've been saying for years that will happen on JACK BENNETT ROAD if we go ahead and build the high school.

Look at the traffic to WOODS.  More cars will be going to the new high school b/c it is a high school and kids drive.

Just look at the NW traffic and then put 2/3 of that on Jack Bennett.

Don't want to say told you so...but when that new high school opens on that windy two land JB...there will be MAJOR issues and accidents. 

But the BOE nor the Superintendent, past or present, seems to be able to see that coming.

[dkemom2]

Sorry for the hijack.

Back to Woods.

Right.  This is just one schools traffic. Wait until the whole shabang is up and running.  Shops. Homes. Offices. Blah Blah.

Bunkey sold us this and SOME took the bait, hook, line and sinker.

[natvrabit]

I am off Andrews and travel it. NOT GOOD! The construction trucks going into BC or maybe the building of Woods, have beaten this little road to pieces. It was not "designed" for the heavy weight load, it's been in the PAST light residential. These large trucks FLY on that road, just a matter of time for an ugly accident. The intersection at 15-501 has become a craps shoot to get onto the highway with the additional traffic with the school and a busy gas station etc.
Ask B.C. if they are concerned about safety in your early promo of them? No sign of it yet.

[belle]

I am off Andrews and travel it. NOT GOOD! The construction trucks going into BC or maybe the building of Woods, have beaten this little road to pieces. It was not "designed" for the heavy weight load, it's been in the PAST light residential. These large trucks FLY on that road, just a matter of time for an ugly accident. The intersection at 15-501 has become a craps shoot to get onto the highway with the additional traffic with the school and a busy gas station etc.
Ask B.C. if they are concerned about safety in your early promo of them? No sign of it yet.

I stood up and asked in the first meeting. they said NC DOT was responsible for all improvements. they would do only what they were required after DOT did a study.

too bad DOT is broke but they are still cranking up BC.

[natvrabit]

Makes no sense to me. (Other than it's about "plucking" in certain things to DRAW people to buy into BC to begin with Marketing 101. There is GOING to be a serious accident in this area. You have a traffic signal at JB which who knows when will have a school and now you have a TINY road that has a school and another planned and another at the FAR end of it that buses etc. travel down and NO SIGNALS
I did not WANT any of it, but it is HERE and I too am having to risk my life with their dreamy (profiteering world), to have to scrape someone's kids off the roadway, or my own self).

[belle]

Makes no sense to me. (Other than it's about "plucking" in certain things to DRAW people to buy into BC to begin with Marketing 101. There is GOING to be a serious accident in this area. You have a traffic signal at JB which who knows when will have a school and now you have a TINY road that has a school and another planned and another at the FAR end of it that buses etc. travel down and NO SIGNALS
I did not WANT any of it, but it is HERE and I too am having to risk my life with their dreamy (profiteering world), to have to scrape someone's kids off the roadway, or my own self).

and where is DOT with all those improvements?

I have seen what they did to Mann's Chapel, and it cost a lot, but it is not squat. you guys on Andrew's Store Road? yeah, in this economy, I wish you luck.

[natvrabit]

I P.O. people I know sitting at ASR to go out onto 15-501, but TOO BAD, I am NOT going to go until I feel like I am safe. I do have to pay EXTRA attention now before I even get ONTO ASR, because there is a significant increase of traffic with the school and all of the dump trucks etc. on that road. (They take their half of the road in the middle), the rest of us have an eaten up shoulder, pot holes and the ditch.

[belle]

I P.O. people I know sitting at ASR to go out onto 15-501, but TOO BAD, I am NOT going to go until I feel like I am safe. I do have to pay EXTRA attention now before I even get ONTO ASR, because there is a significant increase of traffic with the school and all of the dump trucks etc. on that road. (They take their half of the road in the middle), the rest of us have an eaten up shoulder, pot holes and the ditch.

I know that crossing well, you will probably have to wait for a light. 

as much as I hate another light, you need one.

but what about the quality of the road itself? that was bad, and I have't been on it since ;abor day.

[natvrabit]

Yeah, Belle, sometime back Beckysews said ASR was like going 4-Wheeling in the woods Since all of the rain of late it's really crumbled even more. I went to most of the "hearings" as well...money speaks loudly doesn't it?
In this week's Chatham paper an article on Long Range Transportation Plan (2035) proposal to widen to 4 lanes, 751, Jack Bennet, Lystra, O'Kelly Chapel Rd. and Farrington Mill. (I guess after they redo I-40 botches several more times, throw in a few more DOT embezzlement losses  it will be closer to 2050 and I'll either be dead, too old to drive and/or wheelchair bound and ADS back to dirt road.
For safety sake I'm leaning toward going right off ASR onto 15-501 and do a switchback at the light. It's pretty scary trying to cross there.

[chathamshooter]

Unfortunately, we may have to live with the road conditions on ASR for some time; at least until some of the construction in Briar's Chapel is done.  The road is in horrible shape, I drove down it today.  There's no way to keep it in decent shape as long as all that construction traffic comes and goes. 

[natvrabit]

They need to beat up their own roads.
Now there is a good sales pitch"...X people killed trying to get to school on a skinny (once) country road in the "nature preserve" of Briar Chapel.

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