Ilovedowntownraleigh, stop it with the whiny unequal liberal childishness. If there were a bridge put up in southern Raleigh, the planners, you and I all know what would happen. It would get tagged DAILY, people who don't work would cross it to get their smokes and groceries with ebt cards we pay for and most certainly be a drug trafficking highway, I've had people buy NON food stuff with them all the time. If south raleigh wants more money and services they need to stop throwing trash everywhere, they possess trash cans just like north Raleigh. I've seen lazy good for nothings throw trash on the ground within feet of a trash can that wasn't full yet out of pure entitled laziness. BTW it's named SOUTH Saunders st., They named it SOUTH Saunders st because it was SOUTH of Raleigh not because it's direction. There is NO NORTH Saunders st. Both directions are called SOUTH Saunders st. Consult a map.

Unless Google Maps is wrong, neither road is carrying a state highway at that point so this seems to be a local issue rather than a state one.

Save the $$$$...use brains....set the lights up like they do in "smart" cities - RED lights in all directions (NO turns allowed when RED) and crosswalks GREEN at the same time (including diagonal crosswalk)....very successful, efficient and the $$ can be used on something really needed. tired2

great idea!

A complicated crossing no doubt - but according to the article, they at least have crosswalks and walk-don't walk signals.

Over here in south Raleigh, we have 2 miles of 9-lane traffic, on a road called Saunders and Wilmington, and you can be sure that 55 mph is common. What we don't have is a single crosswalk ANYWHERE on Saunders-Wilmington/401 from I-40 south to Garner, Clayton, or Fuquay-Varina. So you can imagine how I feel when I read about skybridges at Crabtree, and pedestrian bridges over Western. I see unequal distribution of funds, and heavily populated areas without even sidewalks or crosswalks, all in a city with a pedestrian-friendly rating of 36 out of 50 large American cities.

Save the $$$$...use brains....set the lights up like they do in "smart" cities - RED lights in all directions (NO turns allowed when RED) and crosswalks GREEN at the same time (including diagonal crosswalk)....very successful, efficient and the $$ can be used on something really needed.

If this bridge/tunnel is so important for student safety, then have NCSU build and pay for it using the money garnered from its sports program and its boosters after all dodging traffic while crossing Western Blvd is a sport.

the problem is that ncsu has sprawled like a town into the suburbs. all of their growth is crossing a major traffic throughfare instead of staying urban at their historic core.

heck, if basketball actually lives up to its hype this year and ncsu wins something other than bass fishing, i'll bet the students couldn't even find hillsborough street to celebrate.

"A tunnel makes sense based on grade, but would be more expensive." - SaveEnergyMan

Well, if they are going to blow a wad of cash, do it right. At least a concrete tunnel won't rust.

I hate spending money but this one makes sense to do...tunnels are expensive but not out of the realm of possiblity....but whoever said it would take only a summer is sorely mistaken.

an idea that is 25years behind it's time. A much better use of money (dot) than tourist museams in Podunk....

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