Have you been reading about Cabelas?
The grand opening is expected to bring 1,000,000 shoppers to the Tualatin big box store over the 4 day event.
A MILLION?
Sure as shootin' it'll be a non-stop vehicular onslaught. No wonder Tualatin is upset about traffic coming to Stafford - they already have a serious problem with the Tualatin Sherwood road, and it's going to be worse with this new magnet store they've built at the freeway on-ramp.
Even with the loss of traffic generated by the closure of the iconic Jiggles, this is going to increase traffic daily and dramatically impact weekends as hunters and gatherers converge there to shop and gawk, because this store ain't just another Dick's. They expect people to travel a few hundred miles and cross state lines to get there.
Prudent Hamleteers will stock their shelves with chili and pork rinds and not venture too far from home the weekend of the 18th.Wiser ones will just up and leave town.
And perhaps some of us will be looking out their windows and wondering if this is a sign of our own future should the Hamlet get all urbany and densified.
What will Borland Road look like that weekend? Roundabout traffic? And I-205? Will traffic on Childs Road be able to turn left onto Stafford at all that weekend?
I sometimes roll my eyes when the NIMBY arguments come up because TRAFFIC panic is always high on the list, and it pushes the protest buttons.
This Cabela weekend may get us all reaching for the panic button!
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