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This arrived in the last hour from Triangle Transit staff. Interesting timing for the Commissioners' meeting!
The Regional Transportation Alliance is out with its spring 2012 survey of potential voters in Orange and Wake counties on transit improvements.
In a nutshell:
Nearly 60% of Orange County voters support a sales tax for transit; this year the number of respondents in Orange opposing the measure fell to its lowest level ever
In Wake, numbers remain above 50%; support has dropped slightly since 2010; 70% of those questioned say they believe they would benefit from improved transit whether or not they use it.
A link to the news release and all crosstabs from this year and past polling periods can be found here:
http://www.letsgetmoving.org/priorities/transit#poll/
The 2012 news release is here:
Item 7c on the Orange Couny Commissioners agrenda for Tuesday 5/14 7 pm (Southern Human Services Center):
c.
Orange County Transit Plan and Related
Agreements
The Board
will consider adoption of the Orange County Transit Plan and consider approval
of the Durham/Orange Cost Share Agreement, the Orange County/Triangle Transit
Implementing Agreement and the Do Not Levy Agreement and authorize the Chair to
sign if approved.
http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/1205157c.pdf
42 pages of detail for you to peruse. If approved, then a public hearing and vote June 5 on the actual referendum call for November
The intersection of Alabama Avenue and Jones Ferry Road is the first impression of Carrboro for visitors entering town from Highway 54. It is important to the Central Business District and the Farmer's Market that this section of Jones Ferry Rd makes a good first impression. This is the Gateway to Carrboro.
In a tight Democratic primary involving 3 candidates for 2 seats in Orange County's district 1, civil rights attorney and former Carrboro alderman Mark Dorosin came out ahead with 10,474 votes. He will be joined on the Board of Commissioners by current Chapel Hill Town Council member Penny Rich (9709 votes). Because there was no Republican primary in district 1 this year, Dorosin and Rich will take their seats after the general election in November. They will replace outgoing commissioner Valerie Foushee and incumbent commissioner Pam Hemminger (9167 votes).
In the statewide vote, Amendment One passed easily with 61% of the vote. However, Orange County overwhelmingly rejected the amendment by a vote of 79% to 21%. (Our neighbors in Durham County likewise voted 70% to 30% against the amendment.) Some precincts in Carrboro and Chapel Hill voted against the amendment almost unanimously. The map below shows the Orange County precinct-level results of the referendum.
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