Horse Pen Creek Road has been featured a lot on Greensboro Daily Photo; however, it is fascinating to watch a road get widened before your eyes. Now, they are making way for two more lanes, a bike path, a landscaped median, a sidewalk, and curbs. All of this work requires cutting down trees and grading the land. In the above photo, the tree company was exiting the formerly, wooded area with logs and tree debris. It is hard to believe that this once sleepy country road will become a limited access four-lane. You can see part of the word SCHOOL on the road as Caldwell Academy is nearby. The 30 million dollar project should help ease some of the traffic congestion in this part of town, and even make travel safer.
Plans for the nearby urban loop, that now passes under Horse Pen Creek, have been in the making since 1948. It would be interesting to see what kind of plans the City of Greensboro has for the area seventy years from now; 2088 seems like a lifetime, or two away! Wonder if asphalt roads will be obsolete. Wonder if road surfaces will be made out of pervious materials to let the water soak through. Indeed, it is hard to make plans for and dream about a city seven decades out.
Good lord, that's a long time coming.
Posted by: William Kendall | Thursday, August 09, 2018 at 11:13 AM