In the 1980s, the state began widening Independence Boulevard to ease traffic between Matthews and the center city.Why should Charlotte neighborhoods have to be cleaved in two and forced to deal with the abomination that Independence has become just so people who choose to live far away from downtown can get downtown quicker? Why?
If you want to see what the people who brought us this mess have up their sleeves next, there will be an "informational workshop" in the Activity Center Room at Eastland Mall Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. The end result: East Independence will be a freeway from downtown to Conference Drive. I guess it's too late to tear it up.
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I'm ambivalent about Independence. While I remember the section of it nearer to downtown being a vital retail corridor two decades ago, the surrounding neighborhoods (particularly those closest to the Plaza and Pecan interchanges) were terrible.
Now, those same neighborhoods have blossomed because cutting off Independence also meant cutting off the riff-raff. But, unfortunately, it cut off the retail from the good people of our neighborhoods. More incentives are needed to lure businesses back (how about a Trader Vic's where the Wal-Mart was supposed to go? That will certainly lure a few folks out into the open).
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