Torrence Chapel Road study on Town Board agenda tonight
June 15. Cornelius commissioners are likely to give the go-ahead tonight to a $70,300 NCDOT study of the Torrence Chapel Road/West Catawba Avenue intersection. The town will pay $17,575 towards the study with the remainder covered by a state grant. The Town Board meeting begins at 7 pm, in Town Hall on Catawba Avenue.
This is one of the two “bookend” intersections which will need to undergo a major redesign in order to achieve the maximum benefits from the Diverging Diamond Intersection at Exit 28. Under the agreement, the DOT will retain an engineering consultant to recommend both short term and long term improvements for the intersection and corridor. The study would begin by the fall and include public input.
Also at Monday’s meeting, the board will consider renewing the town’s solid waste disposal contract with Republic Services and adopting a ten year comprehensive parks and greenways master plan. Finally, the commissioners are expected to approve the 2016 town budget, which calls for no tax increase.
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Why pay someone else to study it…the people who live here study it everyday….we can tell you exactly what’s wrong with it….sometimes I study it up to 4 times a day. I’ve been studying it for over 15 years now. The diamond’s light timing is fubard….it green when no one is at the light…and turns red when a group of cars approaches. You cut out off the right hand turning lane going north on Torrence chapel.
Yes light timing is the major problem. That was all that was wrong with the old road before DD. If the lights were in better sync we would not have needed to waste any money on the DDI.