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DT Raleigh Chatter for March 12th, 2010
The Raleigh Convention Center and redesigned Fayetteville Street area is really quite impressive. I’m proud of it!
- plugusin
Home sweet home. I haven’t seen you in so long. I love you, north Raleigh. Downtown ain’t got nothin’ on you!
- aylaboo
Sitting in the park in downtown Raleigh enjoying the free mesh broadband in Americas Most Wired City [...]
Baseball In Downtown, Devereux Meadow Meets Progress In Raleigh
Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives
It’s no secret but most people don’t know about the baseball stadium that once stood near downtown. That’s right, at one point in time, minor league sluggers were blasting home runs onto what would eventually become Capital Blvd. The ballpark once sat in the area highlighted in the map [...]
Fareless Transit Ideas
Here’s an interesting read that I’d like to highlight. Aaron Renn’s blog, The Urbanophile, suggests an interesting concept for smaller cities that are trying to grow transit. Make them free. Well not exactly free but without fares. Renn states:
Why have a fare in the first place? It is odd that we pay per use on [...]
Big Drafts at Natty Greene’s In Downtown Raleigh
The landmark of powerhouse square in Glenwood South, the Raleigh Electric Company Power House building, has been empty for over a year now but that will all change soon. Greensboro based Natty Greene’s has moved in and will open very soon. The furniture is in place, the beer tanks are brewing, and staff training is [...]
Weekend Exposure: Angry Jet
Angry Jet by dtraleigh, on Flickr
DT Raleigh Chatter for March 5th, 2010
I’m trying something new here and the best way to see if it will work is to just do it. You’ll never know unless you try, right?
Anyway so outside of my normal Twitter stream, I follow some key words and phrases that are related to downtown Raleigh. Once you filter through all the crap there [...]
Pic of the Week
The green parking signs are being replaced with blue signs indicating that this area is paid parking. I wonder if this was intentional to match the blue wayfinding signs.
Tracking Buses Online and On Your Phone
Recently, the city has created some online and mobile tracking services for the buses in Capital Area Transit. The best part is that they all have maps associated with them. I love me some maps.
For downtown, this includes the R-Line, which is technically part of CAT and is shown on the CAT tracking page. The [...]
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