If you thought it was bad when the trucks tore the heck out of North 40, you're not going to like what you see on the northeast corner of 84th and Holdrege, either. Initial work on Colleen Seng's favorite Wal-Mart has begun.
Between the northeast and southwest corners of that intersection, plus all of the other new building activity nearby on North 84th Street, that stretch has the potential to become very clogged. 84th Street already serves as "Highway 84", the only good route on the east side of town to get from the south to Interstate 80. Now that a stretch of it is set to become a substantial commercial hub (with hundreds of apartments nearby), traffic could really become a bear.
Lincoln's leaders really screwed up by not starting an East Beltway years ago. Plans now exist for the Beltway, but its arrival date is approximately 2000-never, and its location so far east makes it less useful than it otherwise could have been. Wouldn't it have been nice if the East Beltway could have been built just east of 84th Street?
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