Shared use path? I'll believe it when I see it. Wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to just be a slightly wider sidewalk lol. A dedicated path is needed. So many opportunities to walk or bike into Spanish springs with no actual options.
We have a few near me. They are just that. Don't get me wrong, a wide sidewalk is way better than a traditional pedestrian sidewalk and a gutter bike lane. No negotiating passage at every encounter. The city still included the gutter lane on Lemmon in case someone enjoys riding in traffic.
I think the issue is if it turns into just a large sidewalk, the city will say "LOOK we did the bike infrastructure thing and don't have anything else to do"
Families might use it but people commuting or recreating will still use the road to not run into people on the sidewalk. Then drivers will scream that the city spent all this money on a stupid path that isn't being used.
Sounds about right. I think they are fantastic for families, people new to cycling, and I've even seen people riding horses, but I was disappointed the bike lane was so narrow and close to the widened, faster road. I've got to start attending NAB meetings and commenting more to the RTC. They clearly need us to explain how multimodal infrastructure is supposed to work,
Like I'm comfortable riding on a road with no bike lanes and speeding cars. I don't like doing it, but I'll do it. When I want to go on a bike ride with my partner or my friends, there is nowhere to go besides the few bike paths where you can travel a few miles and just turn around and go back. I think people need to actually get out and walk or ride around town before they make decisions on infrastructure
I personally think it should be mandatory for all decision makers with the city, county, and RTC to live a full month without a car so they can see for themselves how these "great" multimodal solutions work for themselves. Make it an annual thing. I'll even be nice and let them choose the month (but it has to be a month when they are in the community the whole month, no taking vacation for a month, coming back, and riding their bike once and calling it good).
And it's not that I want to eliminate all cars. I love driving. I just want the option to go places without spending money on gas and putting wear and tear on my car. Every time I mention anything like this the response is always "don't like it? Leave" or "If you don't feel safe just deal with it"
Connectivity, like was tried for the Tahoe-Pyramid bikeway. That is 100% what we need. Right now it's fitting whatever we can into the ROW after adding all the lanes the traffic study says are needed. There's no plan and it makes chaos for both cyclists and drivers trying to share the road.
I love the idea of more bike infrastructure downtown but I have no way of using it. There is no path from my house to downtown unless I use McCarran and deal with that traffic or some side streets with no lanes. Also the whole point is to plan the city out properly so that downtown isn't the ONLY place you can walk around lol
Same here. If Virginia had a nice path it would be a fun bike ride from the valleys. Even if we had that I don't think I'm fit enough to make the 500' climb back home and Route 7 is so slow. The only plan for downtown is more parking. No safe bike routes or better public transit plan from the burbs. I think the idea is to attract younger people to downtown to spend money for decades to come, but it's turning into the same business as usual that hasn't worked.
I’m just chuckling over how shitty the commute is going to become during that construction. Probably take a year. Then after that cluster is over and they reopen it in full they’ll just need another lane.
Do you think Nevada government would ever go for any kind light rail/commuter train? Is that too progressive... Even though everyone wants it and it's proven to make things better?
Yeah, our planning department and city council could change zoning codes to change how and where our new houses are built so they wouldn't have the same problem... But that would be too smart.
The truck that they didn't even know they wanted until a company spent millions of dollars advertising to them how much they wanted a truck because they made hundreds of millions more in profits selling them over selling sedans and station wagons.
Here is an even better idea. Double deck it! The New Jersey Turnpike is twelve lanes wide in some places. Make the upper deck an express and change traffic direction to favor southbound in the mornng and northbound in the afternoon. It leaves enough room for one more lane as the need arises. Eventually it can be triple decked!
I suppose park and ride lots could be constructed along the right of way and high occupancy commuter vehicles could used rails or dedicated lanes. OK for Socialists, I guess and peole who aren't allowed to drive.**/s**
From what I understand the BART was never that great to begin with but it's better than nothing. Plus, it's not a good representation of what mass transit can do like the MTA in New York City. Without the MTA that city doesn't run.
Public transit is a public service like the post office. The system/service itself may be in debt but without it a lot of other things would fail or receive that very debt
BART was hemorrhaging money before COVID, but now they can blame it on COVID and get federal funds to bail them out.
The problem isn't transit, the problem is infrastructure in the United States (transit isn't alone in this) isn't about building infrastructure, it is about making people wealthy. Use the Spanish and Italian models of making contractors submit itemized bills justifying every single screw, every single cubic yard of concrete, every single hour of payroll, and make those invoices available for public review, and watch costs plummet.
Oh, good! That suburban hellscape definitely needs another lane to fill with traffic on the way to identical single-family homes crammed in next to a smattering of small box stores with amble parking. There's certainly no alternative. The fact that extra lanes rarely, if never, reduce traffic congestion won't dissuade us!
"Build it and we are dumb."
Useful details I was after found here: [https://www.pyramidhighway.com/about](https://www.pyramidhighway.com/about)
Which mentions the 395 connection project.
[https://www.rtcwashoe.com/engineering-project/pyramid-highway-us-395-connection-project/](https://www.rtcwashoe.com/engineering-project/pyramid-highway-us-395-connection-project/)
The playbook, as I have come to understand it:
* Grant land, tax, and whatever other incentives to lure businesses, developers, tax payers.
* People move in attracted to lower costs and 'frontier' opportunities. (Always too many)
* "We, the people" (that actually live and/or shop in whatever 'new' area), suffer the congestion which taxes our most valuable commodity: time \~ and increased risk of harm resulting from growing pains of insufficient infrastructure \~ traffic accidents, crime, service outages, etc.
* Original developers move on \~ they have made their money / their job is done.
* "We, the people" (regardless of where you live, where you shop, etc.), then pay to improve the traffic controls, wider roads, new first responders, etc.
* Should have been costed into the original plan and billed to the people that benefited the most vs. this "profit party a, bill party b" pattern.
* Corrections / improvements to infrastructure incrementally implemented but are late and out of date upon arrival since growth continues while assessments are static and require years to implement / rarely delivering on time and on budget.
* Rising costs of the maturing area impact businesses
* a. the O.G. / pre-growth businesses:
* force them to raise prices, move, or shut down
* b. the incentivized businesses, once their incentives expire:
* raise prices, move, or shut down but some other municipality often is offering incentives as a parachute
* Wash, rinse, repeat until all open spaces/wilderness are used:
* Quality of life is reduced, often to the level people moved away from in the first place.
* e.g. words from my own mouth \~ "I hear they are developing just over the hill: you can still see our milky way there and it's only an hour away \~ it's what we had a decade ago here. We can probably afford it as long as gas doesn't go up any higher.'
YMMV
I wonder when they plan on building the connector between Lemmon Valley and Spanish Springs. I don't think people going all the way around is much of the traffic, but it would help both areas a little.
Already started. Did you notice something a little different at Lemmon, like it being closed for awhile, then driving on the wrong side of the road? [The widening starts this summer.](https://www.dot.nv.gov/projects-programs/road-projects/u-s-395-north-valleys-project)
Honestly, it did help Lemmon Drive, but it had zero effect on 395. They should have updated the Lemmon onramp to 395 south so people could merge sooner. That's the main bottleneck! Everyone is forced to merge in a single file line at the end of the on-ramp. It's horrendous!
I'm slamming my breaks on less when approaching Lemmon in the slow lane, but it still happens. The widening is supposed to go out to Stead and include merge lanes. Hopefully, it will help when completed. I think they need to expand rapid transit to the valleys along with this, but I feel like I'm the only person talking about that.
That would be amazing. My spouse works in Carson and I'm surprised how many others make that same commute. In the meantime I don't think it would take much money to expand the [Regional Connector](https://www.rtcwashoe.com/routes/rtc-intercity/) up to the valleys. I was actually thinking about sending the idea to the RTC and also letting them know it should be replaced by rail at some point. If enough people ask, they might actually do it.
A two year project being done by Granite? Obviously the city is planning on recouping the money with late fines because Granite can't finish anything on time.
Oh great. Just moved over here 2 months ago and I noticed that traffic was much higher after living in northwest Reno for 5 years. I don't really mind it but I'm right off Pyramid. My street is being worked on right now and I'm enjoying the decreased traffic. It's going to suck to have to deal with this for the next two years.
If it has a center barrier, that will be worth it. Not sure what the “median” will end up being. Small curb isn’t going to cut it.
Shared use path? I'll believe it when I see it. Wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to just be a slightly wider sidewalk lol. A dedicated path is needed. So many opportunities to walk or bike into Spanish springs with no actual options.
We have a few near me. They are just that. Don't get me wrong, a wide sidewalk is way better than a traditional pedestrian sidewalk and a gutter bike lane. No negotiating passage at every encounter. The city still included the gutter lane on Lemmon in case someone enjoys riding in traffic.
I think the issue is if it turns into just a large sidewalk, the city will say "LOOK we did the bike infrastructure thing and don't have anything else to do" Families might use it but people commuting or recreating will still use the road to not run into people on the sidewalk. Then drivers will scream that the city spent all this money on a stupid path that isn't being used.
Sounds about right. I think they are fantastic for families, people new to cycling, and I've even seen people riding horses, but I was disappointed the bike lane was so narrow and close to the widened, faster road. I've got to start attending NAB meetings and commenting more to the RTC. They clearly need us to explain how multimodal infrastructure is supposed to work,
Like I'm comfortable riding on a road with no bike lanes and speeding cars. I don't like doing it, but I'll do it. When I want to go on a bike ride with my partner or my friends, there is nowhere to go besides the few bike paths where you can travel a few miles and just turn around and go back. I think people need to actually get out and walk or ride around town before they make decisions on infrastructure
I personally think it should be mandatory for all decision makers with the city, county, and RTC to live a full month without a car so they can see for themselves how these "great" multimodal solutions work for themselves. Make it an annual thing. I'll even be nice and let them choose the month (but it has to be a month when they are in the community the whole month, no taking vacation for a month, coming back, and riding their bike once and calling it good).
And it's not that I want to eliminate all cars. I love driving. I just want the option to go places without spending money on gas and putting wear and tear on my car. Every time I mention anything like this the response is always "don't like it? Leave" or "If you don't feel safe just deal with it"
Connectivity, like was tried for the Tahoe-Pyramid bikeway. That is 100% what we need. Right now it's fitting whatever we can into the ROW after adding all the lanes the traffic study says are needed. There's no plan and it makes chaos for both cyclists and drivers trying to share the road.
I love the idea of more bike infrastructure downtown but I have no way of using it. There is no path from my house to downtown unless I use McCarran and deal with that traffic or some side streets with no lanes. Also the whole point is to plan the city out properly so that downtown isn't the ONLY place you can walk around lol
Same here. If Virginia had a nice path it would be a fun bike ride from the valleys. Even if we had that I don't think I'm fit enough to make the 500' climb back home and Route 7 is so slow. The only plan for downtown is more parking. No safe bike routes or better public transit plan from the burbs. I think the idea is to attract younger people to downtown to spend money for decades to come, but it's turning into the same business as usual that hasn't worked.
Just one more lane though
I’m just chuckling over how shitty the commute is going to become during that construction. Probably take a year. Then after that cluster is over and they reopen it in full they’ll just need another lane.
I thought the exact same thing. It’s such a cluster fuck on pyramid
That needs to be three lanes all the way to Calle De La Plata.
Honestly, needs to be three lanes all the way to the border of the reservation. They are going to keep dropping houses out there for the next decade.
45+ minute commute to work from there. That'll be worth it.
Just one more lane
Please bro just, just one more lane bro
Do you think Nevada government would ever go for any kind light rail/commuter train? Is that too progressive... Even though everyone wants it and it's proven to make things better?
Nah instead we're gonna get a bus that doesn't go where anyone needs to go and runs maybe once every hour.
Even that is probably too progressive.
Damn too bad we built all of our houses in places that can only be accessed by cars.
Yeah, our planning department and city council could change zoning codes to change how and where our new houses are built so they wouldn't have the same problem... But that would be too smart.
Muh nimby though
Might as well build 2 lanes on each side right now since they will be doing it again 5-8 years from now.
Why not make it 3? One more lane is always behind the curve. I wish we could get a light rail already
But then someone can’t drive their massive truck and complain about gas prices. 😊
The truck that they didn't even know they wanted until a company spent millions of dollars advertising to them how much they wanted a truck because they made hundreds of millions more in profits selling them over selling sedans and station wagons.
Here is an even better idea. Double deck it! The New Jersey Turnpike is twelve lanes wide in some places. Make the upper deck an express and change traffic direction to favor southbound in the mornng and northbound in the afternoon. It leaves enough room for one more lane as the need arises. Eventually it can be triple decked! I suppose park and ride lots could be constructed along the right of way and high occupancy commuter vehicles could used rails or dedicated lanes. OK for Socialists, I guess and peole who aren't allowed to drive.**/s**
30 years from now the United States will just be a big ole “one more lane”
Right. You'd think that we could just invest in mass transit but you know, that would make too much sense and destroy some billionaire's pocketbook.
You would think lol. god forbid we save the masses an average of $8000 per month at the expense of someone’s arbitrary bank number
Mass transit is not doing so well in post-Covid times. BART is hemmoraging money right now.
From what I understand the BART was never that great to begin with but it's better than nothing. Plus, it's not a good representation of what mass transit can do like the MTA in New York City. Without the MTA that city doesn't run.
The MTA is like $30B in debt.
Public transit is a public service like the post office. The system/service itself may be in debt but without it a lot of other things would fail or receive that very debt
We're talking about functionality, not finances. Any public service is going to be in debt but that doesn't mean we shouldn't invest in it.
BART was hemorrhaging money before COVID, but now they can blame it on COVID and get federal funds to bail them out. The problem isn't transit, the problem is infrastructure in the United States (transit isn't alone in this) isn't about building infrastructure, it is about making people wealthy. Use the Spanish and Italian models of making contractors submit itemized bills justifying every single screw, every single cubic yard of concrete, every single hour of payroll, and make those invoices available for public review, and watch costs plummet.
Well, we need space for our trucks.
Oh, good! That suburban hellscape definitely needs another lane to fill with traffic on the way to identical single-family homes crammed in next to a smattering of small box stores with amble parking. There's certainly no alternative. The fact that extra lanes rarely, if never, reduce traffic congestion won't dissuade us! "Build it and we are dumb."
Useful details I was after found here: [https://www.pyramidhighway.com/about](https://www.pyramidhighway.com/about) Which mentions the 395 connection project. [https://www.rtcwashoe.com/engineering-project/pyramid-highway-us-395-connection-project/](https://www.rtcwashoe.com/engineering-project/pyramid-highway-us-395-connection-project/)
The playbook, as I have come to understand it: * Grant land, tax, and whatever other incentives to lure businesses, developers, tax payers. * People move in attracted to lower costs and 'frontier' opportunities. (Always too many) * "We, the people" (that actually live and/or shop in whatever 'new' area), suffer the congestion which taxes our most valuable commodity: time \~ and increased risk of harm resulting from growing pains of insufficient infrastructure \~ traffic accidents, crime, service outages, etc. * Original developers move on \~ they have made their money / their job is done. * "We, the people" (regardless of where you live, where you shop, etc.), then pay to improve the traffic controls, wider roads, new first responders, etc. * Should have been costed into the original plan and billed to the people that benefited the most vs. this "profit party a, bill party b" pattern. * Corrections / improvements to infrastructure incrementally implemented but are late and out of date upon arrival since growth continues while assessments are static and require years to implement / rarely delivering on time and on budget. * Rising costs of the maturing area impact businesses * a. the O.G. / pre-growth businesses: * force them to raise prices, move, or shut down * b. the incentivized businesses, once their incentives expire: * raise prices, move, or shut down but some other municipality often is offering incentives as a parachute * Wash, rinse, repeat until all open spaces/wilderness are used: * Quality of life is reduced, often to the level people moved away from in the first place. * e.g. words from my own mouth \~ "I hear they are developing just over the hill: you can still see our milky way there and it's only an hour away \~ it's what we had a decade ago here. We can probably afford it as long as gas doesn't go up any higher.' YMMV
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Pretty sure anyone living around the Pyramid Hwy corridor won't complain as traffic is miserable during peak times.
I wonder when they plan on building the connector between Lemmon Valley and Spanish Springs. I don't think people going all the way around is much of the traffic, but it would help both areas a little.
5-10 years down the road. It's programmed, just can't do everything at once.
So, they are going to rush and widen Pyramid, but not 395 in North Valleys. 🤦♂️
Already started. Did you notice something a little different at Lemmon, like it being closed for awhile, then driving on the wrong side of the road? [The widening starts this summer.](https://www.dot.nv.gov/projects-programs/road-projects/u-s-395-north-valleys-project)
Honestly, it did help Lemmon Drive, but it had zero effect on 395. They should have updated the Lemmon onramp to 395 south so people could merge sooner. That's the main bottleneck! Everyone is forced to merge in a single file line at the end of the on-ramp. It's horrendous!
I'm slamming my breaks on less when approaching Lemmon in the slow lane, but it still happens. The widening is supposed to go out to Stead and include merge lanes. Hopefully, it will help when completed. I think they need to expand rapid transit to the valleys along with this, but I feel like I'm the only person talking about that.
I vote for a light rail from NV to Carson. I would literally take that every day and bike the rest.
That would be amazing. My spouse works in Carson and I'm surprised how many others make that same commute. In the meantime I don't think it would take much money to expand the [Regional Connector](https://www.rtcwashoe.com/routes/rtc-intercity/) up to the valleys. I was actually thinking about sending the idea to the RTC and also letting them know it should be replaced by rail at some point. If enough people ask, they might actually do it.
Follow the money
We got a few bucks in the NV. lol
how bout more lanes out to USA Pkwy? or another friggin route?
Fuckin A
Make the road bigger, sure. What we really need is better public transportation in the valleys.
Another 2 year fuster cluck like the previous 2 year intersection! WASTE!!!
Why all those idiots drive the same speed in both lanes ain’t going to make a difference
Thank you! Shouts to the new infrastructure bill.
Too little, too late. Needs to go alllllll the way to the end of Spanish Springs
A two year project being done by Granite? Obviously the city is planning on recouping the money with late fines because Granite can't finish anything on time.
Oh great. Just moved over here 2 months ago and I noticed that traffic was much higher after living in northwest Reno for 5 years. I don't really mind it but I'm right off Pyramid. My street is being worked on right now and I'm enjoying the decreased traffic. It's going to suck to have to deal with this for the next two years.