Since we’re in the headfirst slide into the convention center brick wall in both Charlotte and Raleigh, yet another nice stat to add to the list of realities.

Number of drivers on downtown Raleigh’s McDowell St. inconvenienced each day by a construction delay:
Too many

Source: Me, 6/16/05

Eventually we’ll be talking about that often-empty cavernous structure and wonder why we put up with all this for so many years. Oh, and we’ll be talking about all the financial incentives given to groups in order to get them to fill that convention center.