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WARRIORWELDING

WARRIORWELDING

Owner opperator Of WarriorWelding LLC.
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Jan 6, 2008
Location
Chillin, Hwy 64 Mocksville NC
Hey guys I am headed to the Durham Performing Arts Center tomorrow evening. What can I expect traffic to be like on that side of town? Any natives got suggestions on time allowance. I am coming from Mocksville. I got goggles eta but my wife has a buddy who has freaked her out on travel time for traffic. I gotta work some so making an entire day isn't feasible.
 
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What time will you be in the area it's not that bad but I live here lol it will be bizzy 430 till 630 but as long as weather is good you should be ok
 
Show starts at 7 pm.
 
You should be pretty okay, you are going reverse of much of the traffic. Come early and there are a bunch of great restaurants around there.
 
Shouldn't be any problem. I run past that area daily (I'm always going the other direction in the evening than you will be coming in and it will be worse on my side). Head to Durham via I-85 at the split near Efland/Hillsborough then hit the Durham Fwy south (NC147). Get in the left lane and stay in the throttle to avoid the on ramp traffic. DPAC is just a couple blocks off the durham freeway. Unless there is a wreck, you will drive the speed limit all the way in. There could be some stop and go bullshit as you are hitting rush hour but it will be moving as long as no one has wadded it up in the turns. You should be parked within 5-10 minutes from leaving the fwy after a little stop and go from the fwy to the theater (because there are stop lights not because of excessive traffic). Easy peasy but give yourself 30 min of buffer time in case there are some delays especially since I assume you are hitting a show that will start whether you are there or not. The stretch from Winston to Burlington is much busier than what durham will be (at least that's always my experience). I cuss Durham constantly for any number of reasons, but to be fair the traffic on the Durham fwy tends to move pretty well. It's a narrow windy old freeway but much preferred than the big 3 or 4 lane I-40 on the Southern side of town IMO. Come early and have dinner and stay late and visit with the crack whores. Just kidding that part of town is very well taken care of and safe.
 
^^^^What he said. Shouldn't be a problem at all if you go that way. There are a bunch of parking decks in the surrounding area to park in so that shouldn't be an issue either.
 
Well, you're in for a surprise. DPAC is in Durham, not Raleigh.


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Thanks for the heads up. My wife got me tickets for some culturing well over a year ago. Show was put off until now. I am stoked to see 2Cellos in concert at such a small venue. We were going to do a night on the big town but I gotta teach in the AM and finding subs for College Welding isn't real easy.




shawn said:
Well, you're in for a surprise. DPAC is in Durham, not Raleigh.


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might as well be fawkin MARS for me. This country boy doesn't travel to much toward ya'll flat landers.


catfishblues said:
If you're not actually from Raleigh, then it might as well be.

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Exactly, and hopefully this end of town doesn't remind me of anything past Lake Norman on I-77 . No offense to anybody but I prefer sparse rather than populous. Mountains over rolling hills and flat land. If my wife would uproot we wouldn't be anywhere with a population density comparable to any small town suburb.
 
gonna allow 3 hrs if I can jet from CVCC on time. thanks guys
 
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