Do you consider yourself centrally located? Among the items on this week's City Council agenda was a report on the feasibility of building a new Raleigh senior center. During a discussion of the project, it was frequently mentioned that the center needs to be "centrally located," which in this context meant inside the Beltline near the current Whitaker Mill Senior Center.

As Raleigh grows, terms such as "centrally located" become more and more subjective. Perhaps no one knows this better than residents in North Raleigh who often find themselves many miles from City Hall's latest pet projects.

Take roads, for example. The city recently agreed to spend $6.3 million to revitalize a stretch of Hillsborough Street that officials decided had become too dangerous and ugly.

Now look at Capital Boulevard. Few people would disagree that sections of the road are dangerous and unsightly, but no such groundswell of political support has emerged to improve it. You could make the argument that Capital isn't centrally located, but you'd be wrong.

Given the number of Wake County drivers who use it daily, few pieces of road are more central.

Maybe the solution is to banish the use of the term "centrally located" from City Hall. Then they'd really be lost.