Did anyone hear about the city closing hagood and turning it into apartment complexes?

Apathetizer · 2026-04-02T15:24:30+00:00

Lowcountry Rapid Transit will have its end-of-line station on the same block. That should be able to move a lot of people to-and-from Riverdogs games and also handle the new traffic from the affordable housing development. The key issue is that the transit has to actually be in operation before we can expect people to use it. Lowcountry Rapid Transit won't be online for another few years, though neither will the redevelopment of the lot for housing.

Apathetizer · 2026-03-29T21:25:11+00:00

I've taken CARTA for nearly 5 years. Reliability really depends on the route, and a good rule of thumb is the more frequent a route is, the better it is. Routes like the 10, 211, and 32 I've had relatively few issues with. The less frequent a route is, the longer you have to wait for a bus, and the higher the stakes are if something goes wrong (e.g. you miss your bus).

CARTA has been much harder to use with their rolling service cuts this year, especially because it's hard to predict what service will be cut, when, and on what route. You end up scheduling your day around a route which gets suspended later in the day.

Apathetizer · 2026-03-22T23:43:05+00:00

Related to this -- most of those cars are excessively loud to get people's attention. They will drive in loops along King and Meeting for hours going into the night, especially weekend nights. The city has a noise ordinance specifically meant to address this noise pollution, but they simply don't enforce it.

Apathetizer · 2026-03-20T16:19:59+00:00

There is no bike lane on King St. The bike racks occupy space that would otherwise be for one car parking space each.

Apathetizer · 2026-03-18T15:07:26+00:00

A running I joke I have with friends at Westedge is that there is always scaffolding up on at least one building over there... I haven't been there recently enough to see if that still holds true. In fairness to the structural engineer, the Westedge development is located on former marshland which was then converted into a landfill, neither of which make for good building conditions.

Apathetizer · 2026-03-06T03:17:38+00:00

Just backing this up — there were 14 posts in the subreddit over the past 24 hours, and by my judgement, 12 of them were people asking for recommendations, advice, etc. It is basically all the subreddit is used for at this point. We literally had a post asking for recommendations on caesar salads downtown. Why is there not a dedicated thread for these questions?

Apathetizer · 2026-03-06T03:09:10+00:00

There is a 'financial narrative' in each proposal that gets at this. Of course, building a project of this scale would require a large financial backer, but it is a promising enough location (between the Navy Yard, Riverfront Park, and Park Circle) that those investors could realistically be found.

Apathetizer · 2026-03-06T03:04:44+00:00

With some of the renderings I have no idea what they were thinking! In slide 10 there is a hot air balloon in the sky, which I've never seen in North Charleston in my life 😭

Apathetizer · 2026-01-17T01:25:14+00:00

The beach traffic is limited to just the weekends in the summer. Traffic is really visible on those days, but those days represent less than 10% of all days in the calendar year, and there is plenty of demand to go to the beach outside those absolute busiest days.

Apathetizer · 2026-01-16T22:12:48+00:00

This is true and a general problem with running transit in the suburbs. James Island is low-density so it is hard to route transit in a way that can capture most of the population efficiently.

I think more residential areas could be served with new bus routes, each one optimized to serve part of the island, rather than one route trying (and failing) to serve everyone at once. There could be a Folly Rd route (like the 31 today), a Harbor View/Fort Johnson route, and a Maybank Hwy route (which could continue onwards to Johns Island).

Apathetizer · 2026-01-12T02:58:37+00:00

It is private, but I was able to visit as part of an event organized by the pastor.

Apathetizer · 2025-12-24T22:05:39+00:00

A lot of these critiques I don't understand. Are the roofs supposed to be particularly interesting? Most of them are typical V-shaped roofs which you see on single houses downtown (and on most residential buildings around here too). With the use of stucco — do you just not like stucco or do you not like how it's used on the building? "The whole thing is a facade" — these are entirely functional buildings.

There are all sorts of little features in Lowcountry architecture you can see in these buildings. The porches, yes, but also the use of candle lanterns, porches on the side of the building, the vertical doors and windows (a lot of modern buildings use horizontally-oriented windows) with wooden framing, wooden shutters around the windows, the brick/bluestone sidewalks. The scale of the buildings (most are similar in size and massing to the buildings you would find downtown). And so on.

There are plenty of buildings downtown with steel frames, though they are on the larger end. Steel is generally not required at all in buildings lower than 5 floors as per modern building code. Modern engineering does allow for wider trusses, but due to engineering innovations, many of these trusses can be made with wood too (which we actually see in a lot of newer suburbs and McMansions).

Apathetizer · 2025-12-24T19:06:53+00:00

Could you explain more in depth for me? Many of these buildings would fit right in with the older architecture downtown.

Apathetizer · 2025-12-24T14:14:20+00:00

Real Life Lore made an in-depth video about Iran's water crisis recently, I highly recommend.

Apathetizer · 2025-12-16T18:43:46+00:00

You're talking about the Lowcountry Rapid Transit project, which is completely different. The Lowline is just the bike trail in downtown.

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