Reaction among High Point residents to the Uptowne vitalization plan is mixed. The plan calls for pedestrian friendliness, a lower speed limit and —you guessed it —–a traffic circle:

“Main Street is the main street in High Point,” said city resident Richard Dunston “It would be a bear during construction of a traffic circle, and real backed up at 25 mph.”

Alison Steer said she believes it would be an interesting magic trick.

“It would be great if they could just make it appear and the real estate was filled and make it just as they picture it immediately, but its going to take a lot of steps to get to that dream.”

Ah but gov’t is the master of the magic trick —-money just appears out of nowhere — or so they’d have you believe.