Right or Wrong Location?

The infamous Spring Garden Street is known for so much going on. There is for one the school, student housing, stores, restaurants, and anything else that you can think of for the convenience of students. You would think that Spring Garden Street was a little town of its own. There are the regular city commuters and then there are the college students; who drive like they don't have licenses. Before the Walgreens opened on Spring Garden there was the famous CVS Pharmacy. This store is the landmark for finding the school and my old apartment at The Edge. CVS was so convenient while walking but trying to get in and out of there with my car was ridiculous. I can imagine what the planning stage was for the CVS and how it was such a great idea. Which in all actuality it was a great idea, but they probably didn't imagine the traffic would be the way it is with all the college students.

For anyone who has ever lived off campus you can definitely relate to me when I say walking back to campus is a drag! You don't want to walk to the computer lab, library, caf, or EUC. You don't want to do anything, so for CVS to be withing such great walking distance it was great. I would literally leave my stove on and walk to CVS and still be back in time before the pizza ever finished. The location is great whenever you walking but try driving. The intersection of gas station and student housing and CVS brings too much traffic, not to mention there is a college less than a block away. This can be so bad for business when you don't feel like turning into the store because you don't feel like waiting. If the light at Spring Garden and Aycock turns green then no one wants to let you turn. And if the light is red then traffic is so backed up that you just rather keep going. Spring Garden is just too small for so much traffic. And now they just opened a Walgreens and it's even worse. All in all the store is convenient, but I'd rather not bother wasting my time driving there!