For what it’s worth I agree with you that the road should have been connected years ago and would have provided a valuable link that would have avoided 6 Forks & WF Rd, maybe a bit like Yadkin Dr. If you look at a map, the roads almost seem as if they were meant to align (including the bottom segment of Quail Hollow Dr at Navaho) and one might be able to find and old plan that showed them connecting. Anyway, when they built those homes off Anderson, any chance of that occurring went away.

As far as traffic calming, I don’t have a problem with it if people are speeding. We have these issues all over town where overly wide roads are seemingly built for 50mph but limited to 35. We’ve set up situations akin to telling a 5 year old he can’t have any ice cream and then putting a big tub of his favorite flavor right on the table.

With connections/extentions to Computer Drive, Wake Towne Drive and Navaho Drive, your proposal would add relevance and value to the small businesses, chain hotels and apartment communities on these roads.

The retail at Quail Corners would anchor this new connector’s north end.

If Anderson/Quail Hollow were to become a thoroughfare, it would need a secondary traffic outlet near its north end, perhaps a realignment of Steinbeck/Thoreau or an Indian Trail extention to Falls of Neuse.

We should absolutely preserve as much green space as possible just north of the Beltline, in that section of undeveloped buffer land. (What *IS* that space, and why has it managed to stay natural? Kudos to someone, though.)

In the same vein, extentions to the greenways and Eastgate Park should be built and promoted, allowing walkers/bikers the opportunity to move north-south (as well as the existing east-west greenway across Anderson Drive).

Finally, serious thought should be given to the road’s name. There are too many straight-shot roads in Raleigh that change names at some arbitrary point. It’s confusing to new residents/visitors, and doesn’t promote a sense of community.

BTW the land between St Albans & belt line is still EMPTY for now.

Bike lanes really work well. The city could use a lot more of them.

It was over two miles through the neighborhood for many people on a road that was clearly designed as a through-street.

Still, people there, like the teardown tennants on Anderson couldn’t seem to care less about what the road (or neighborhood) was supposed to be.

We’re famous for that here in Raleigh though. Build a house next to a proposed interstate? No problem, I’ll get the city to build a big brick wall for me later.

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Almost forgot, glad to see the bike lanes proposed, although I hope they’ll actually mark them, lest they turn into on-street parking – just like Ridge Road.

They should still be able to fit a right turn lane there.. I suspect it’s more a safety issue to reduce the number of accident-prone intersections.

Anyway, great thoughts, as always. Thanks for putting this topic together, Dana. It certainly reminds me of what I must go through frequently.

I have wished there was a way to bypass the beltline for years, as you suggest. I work on St. Albans and do not need to use the beltline, but it is blocking by path (with bad traffic) wherever I go. I bike often to work and such a connection would reduce my bike distance (using a “safe route) by about two miles. I do not think you have to make such a long connection, but a tunnel could easily run under the beltline (similar to the one on Yadkin Dr.) and connect Quail Hollow to Computer Dr.

As far as the city’s plans on Anderson, I really don’t see any of them necessary, except maybe the bicycle lanes. (Which I favor everywhere.) There are greenways nearby so bike lanes to roads leading near them is a plus.
But all those other things the city is thinking about is not needed…the intersection is fine as it is. The speed limit of 35 is adequate, if enforced. (Which I doubt it is.)