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In the area between the South Campus Gateway and The Short North, there is a quiet new mixed-use development going in at the corner of Euclid and High. The development is filling in a former empty lot with three retail units and three apartment units. One of the retail units has already been announced as signed by Hungry Howie’s Pizza.
The other High Street development news comes from further north at the corner at the problematic intersection of North Broadway and High. The City of Columbus is currently studying a proposal to install a traffic roundabout at this intersection.
^^30-35 mph is the optimum speed for maximum traffic flow, but that only works on highways uniterrupted by things like traffic signals and stop signs. On roads with intersections (like at High & North Broadway), signals have to split the time between competing traffic movements. There’s still only 60 seconds in a minute and lowering the speed limit can’t change that.
Well, I guess that idea is dead…
Clintonville traffic circle idea killed
Monday, June 29, 2009 10:09 PM
BY MARK FERENCHIK AND ROBERT VITALE
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Columbus officials have killed an idea for a proposed traffic circle at N. High Street and E. North Broadway in Clintonville because of high costs and concerns that it would require taking too much property from nearby landowners.
MORE HERE
HA!
“The Clintonville roundabout would have cost at least $17 million to build, planning and operations administrator Patricia Austin wrote in a letter to D Searcy, who leads the Clintonville Area Commission. The total doesn’t include the cost of land acquisition, Austin said. She also thought the roundabout would take out a Starbucks and possibly a Kroger store at the intersection.”
“A Clintonville task force had estimated the project would cost $1 million.”
Yeah, I’m ALL about the roundabout.
Will be checking out Tanahairku. First Indonesian market I know of and they sell homemade goodies. No surprise about the roundabout and I don’t know why it wasn’t shot down earlier. Funny that the idea was “killed”.
Update on the building at High & Euclid: