We live on Tulane between Lead and Coal....in the middle of the block. Not only do we hear the noise, racing, police and fire trucks...folks speed up so they peak at our house either direction and break just in the middle.
We need to get back to the wonderful community Nob Hill was.....and should be.
From: "Anderson Robert via Neighbors_nobhill-nm" <neighbors_nobhill-nm@mailman.swcp.com>
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Subject: Re: [Neighbors] ART (Sally Beers via Neighbors_nobhill-nm)
Another and big issue not being addressed is how will the city make up the value loss to homeowners along the Lead and Coal corridor? Even homes far back from Lead/Coal are impacted by all the vehicle noise and feeder traffic now. As the bottle neck is created on Central we over here will see a loss of home value as the traffic increases and families move out.
It is so bad now that we can’t hear ourselves in the house at times due to the drag racing and loud vehicles on Coal.
The sidewalks on the north/south streets in this area are old and broken and families with kids, people walking dogs or baby strollers, jogging or the elderly out for exercise have to walk in the streets. So when they come to the intersections of major busy Coal/Lead at rush hours it is going to be worse than now for crossing. Moving the traffic off Central onto Lead and Coal will also increase the vehicle traffic (and car thefts and home robberies) on the north/south streets that cross Lead/Coal which is where a large number of stable family homes exist.
It is hard enough now to find families that want to live near the two big highways cutting through their communities and ART will just make it worse which will result in a big loss in property values. Is it worth destroying the community fabric for a few supposed jobs on Central. I don’t think so.
The Mayor’s team has said that Lead and Coal are under utilized, not carrying the capacity they could carry in terms of numbers of vehicles. This is just tech code for destroying our long established communities that are having hard enough time now.
Bob
It’s amazing that the people who live on Lead and Coal are the ones who are only looking at their houses and not the betterment of the area or community. We live on Carlisle and the traffic if horrible, but it’s the way it is, living in the city near such a popular area of town.. The area surrounding the ART path will be upgraded and walkways made bigger. How wonderful for foot traffic and a perfect place for more trees. I can’t wait. I’m tired of old thinking about this city and am excited about NEW thinking on improving the city. More business means more jobs.
-Sal
Great letter. Behind you 100%
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I sent this to the Journal too about all the letters they ran in favor of ART….. Bob
Dear Journal editor:
As another long time Nob Hill resident I must say this proposal is going to destroy our and other communities and not create anything but more low wage jobs, if any at all.
We do need more mass transit but this is not a good solution unless you are a contractor looking for a quick buck. I would rather that this money be spent on low income housing, north/south bus lines, subsidizing jobs for the poor, helping our schools among a list of other more pressing problems. Heck, Nob Hill does not even have a community center but it has lots of bars.
In case the mayor has not noticed the businesses along Central have been closing for a long time now due to the fact that people don't have the luxury spending money in their pockets to spend in Nob Hill bars and shops. It is not because they don't have a bus to get there on. Raising the wages of low-end workers in the city would do more to help businesses than anything right now.
Throwing $100 million into this problem is going to solve nothing but make the Nob Hill and other communities near by area more unlivable as more and more traffic will be shifted to the horrible Coal and Lead corridors.
Lead and Coal cut like a knife through long stable communities and the increased traffic planned for them will just drive more people out and properties will be turned in to rentals by "investors", who are behind much of this project it seems. This is already happing. The noise and racing problems and intersection crashes on Lead/Coal are now causing home owners to put up walls on the street sides, making the area more of a canyon than a nice livable neighborhood.
Intensifying the traffic on Lead and Coal, one of the stated goals of the project will bleed this area of many stable long-term homeowners. What the ART will do is make the platinum condo duelers who jump from brewery to brewery along Central happier. This seems to be the class divide behind this project as it is planned.
Plus, the thousands of trees that we have planted along Central over the decades to make some shade in this hot city will be cut down too. This plan makes no sense at all and should be stopped now in its tracks before more destruction is done to our communities. We need more rapid transit but not this project.
Bob Anderson
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