Harrisburg Development Page
Josh Karns over at Karns Quality Blog has put together a nice page tracking all the development going on in Harrisburg:
Harrisburg Development Page
"The focus is on commercial projects located within the City of Harrisburg, but some public works projects, large-scale residential projects, or projects very near Harrisburg may be included if significant in their impact on the city."
This is a very nice resource to have and I hope he's able to keep it maintained. The project that interests me the most is the Northern Gateway Project. In addition to making North 7th the main artery into the city from the north, I've heard that this project includes making North 2nd a two-way street instead of the current one-way north. If increasing traffic on 7th means less traffic on 2nd, that's a good thing, but I worry about losing parking along 2nd. As long as they continue to have parking on both sides of the street I'm all for this change but if they cut the parking to one side only that's going to have a pretty big negative impact on the area.
posted by Christian @ 10:08 AM
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4 Comments:
I would think they'd be able to maintain parking on both sides of the street. There are currently 3 north bound lanes with parking on both sides. Convert those three lanes into two lanes, one north, and one south and they should be adequately sized with an allowance for parking on both sides.
I believe the intent is to make 2nd street more like 3rd Street, and 7th more like Front. Sounds like a great idea to me.
I hope that's how they do it.
One thing, though -- the change to 2nd means a loss of 2 N/B lanes. The Harrisburg Dev page says 7th is "become the primary artery to downtown when travelling from the North," but that's what Front St. is. Shouldn't 7th become the primary artery for leaving the city to the north? Otherwise there will be fewer lanes out of the city, which doesn't seem like a good thing.
Good point . . . I had always heard that 7th was going to be North bound traffic, which would make sense. Maybe the development page was confused.
It's quite possible that I'm confused (it happens on occasion) but you're right about Front St . . . it wouldn't make any sense at all to have no north bound exit artery.
Aight. So I just checked the Central Penn Business Journal article linked by the Karns blog, and this is what I saw regarding 7th (admittedly, I skimmed the article).
"Seventh Street will serve as the main traffic artery through the Northern Gateway, DeSousa said. The city plans to begin widening Seventh Street beginning near Herr Street, creating four lanes, said Joseph V. Link, city engineer, during a Southern Gateway update meeting in October."
With four lanes, I'd guess that's two north and two south, which does seem to be a little bit of a decrease in north bound routes, assuming 2nd becomes two way.
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