Cary, NC – The NCDOT warns 2010 is a bad year for potholes and asks that drivers be observant while driving on roads throughout the state. REPORT A POTHOLE – STATE ROADS Officials with the State Department of Transportation want your help keeping our roads in reasonable shape during this…
Vox Populi – Latin for voice of the people. In this installment, Liz Adams explains the Walker Street Extension in downtown Cary. The plan calls for the extension of Walker Street 1,200 feet from its current end at Cedar Street northwards to Chapel Hill Road. The project includes an underpass…
In response to our story on pedestrian safety in Cary, Town Councilman Don Frantz (District B) sent us a fact sheet from the Town of Cary staff. Here are Don’s comments ~ After reading the story posted on CaryCitizen about Raleigh/Cary’s ranking in TFA‘s pedestrian safety study I was very concerned and…
A new study by Transportation for America ranks the Raleigh-Cary area as the sixth most dangerous for pedestrians in the U.S. According to the organization: Researchers at the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership in the 1990s developed the Pedestrian Danger Index (PDI) in order to establish a level playing field for…
Another serious traffic accident occurred at the corner of Cary Parkway and High House Road on Friday evening shortly after 10 PM. A witness on the scene described a collision between a car and a motorcycle. Passersby shielded the motorcycle rider, who was on the ground, from oncoming traffic. The…
About eight weeks ago, Kailee Birdsong was killed by a hit and run driver at the intersection of Greenlevel to Durham Road and Cary Glen Blvd. This was not the first accident, nor was it the last. Before the town finally installed a much needed light at least 2 other…
Citizens came armed with questions as they packed into the Cary Senior Center on Tuesday evening. Town planners were revealing proposals to help solve current and future traffic snarls at the intersection of Cary Parkway and High House Road. Tables displayed large blowup maps of four proposals that were the…
