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I have a few questions this week. Well,
actually, I always have a lot but I will
only bother you with three this week.
First, why is Siena Drive a
thoroughfare of any kind? Minor, semi,
semidemihemiquaver, I don’t care. It
doesn’t go anywhere.
You can find it easily on
the northern end, where it dead ends
into West Holding Avenue. It is nothing
special as it winds through the houses
of Holding Ridge and then it ends at the
edge of property zoned for neighborhood
business and landlocked until the second
section of the N.C. 98 bypass opens next
spring.
The southern part is the
tricky part. I defy anyone to find it on
the first pass with or without a town
map. You can find it from Cimarron
Parkway in the Cimarron subdivision and
you do have to head north, but those are
the only hints I will give you. I assure
you, as someone who has spent a lot of
time poking around subdivisions under
construction and making U-turns at
cul-de-sacs and dead-end streets, that
if they connect Siena Drive across the
bypass and if you try it as a shortcut
from the north, you will just find
yourself wondering how to get back out
to South Main Street.
Secondly, why is land along
the N.C. 98 bypass zoned for
neighborhood business when there are
subdivisions snugged up against the
supposed fast way through or around the
town and people who do not want any kind
of commercial business next door? Just
for those of you came in late, when the
bypass was first suggested 40 years ago
or so it really would have gone around
the town. Our girth just overgrew our
belt.
Thirdly, why don’t we give
as much commercial airtime on WRAL-TV or
WTVD-TV to planning decisions that
directly affect people’s lives and
pocketbooks as we do to coach’s comments
after basketball games?
Do not try to answer this
question because you will probably be
declared an illegal alien. |
