transportation
After reading yet another article about the parking "problem" in downtown Carrboro/Chapel Hill, I thought it'd be worth revisiting solutions to this problem. (Or maybe non-problem, I've never had trouble parking in either town, so I don't really know what people are talking about, unless their definition of parking is parking within a 1/10th mile of the business/restaurant they wish to visit).
The Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) is the
policy body within the DCHC-MPO which coordinates and makes decisions on transportation
planning issues.
The Transportation Advisory Committee is comprised of elected and
appointed officials from the City of Durham, the Town of Chapel Hill,
the Town of Carrboro, the Town of Hillsborough, Durham County, Orange
County, Chatham County, and the North Carolina Department of
Transportation. The TAC also has advisory (non-voting) members from
Triangle Transit, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Research
Triangle Foundation of North Carolina.
The Transportation Advisory Committee is governed by a set of Bylaws (25 KB), revised November 9, 2005.
The
TAC normally meets the second Wednesday of each month in the Durham
City Council Committee Room at 9 a.m. There is typically no meeting in
July. Some meetings may take place in the evening to facilitate
participation in public hearings. Check the calendar for upcoming
meeting dates.
Date:
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location:
Committee Room, 2nd Floor, Durham City Hall, Durham NC
Over the next two weeks, Orange County will be holding public outreach sessions to get feedback from central and rural Orange County residents about the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan. Residents are invited to discuss options for new, expanded and existing bus services under the plan. Bus routes to be brought for public input will include rural service routes, regional service routes, and the Hillsborough Circulator.
Four meetings will be held throughout northern Orange County in August. The dates and locations are as follows, and can also be found on the OP calendar.
Orange County is holding public meetings to discuss options for new, expanded and existing bus services outlined in the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan. Bus routes to be brought for public input will include rural service routes, regional service routes, and the Hillsborough Circulator. The purpose of the outreach is to obtain information regarding community bus service needs and assist in the design of future services.
As the meetings will be conducted primarily in an “open house” format, feel free to come when you can. A presentation may be given a couple of times during the course of the evening to best accommodate attendees.
Date:
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Mebane Arts & Community Center, 633 Corregidor Street, Mebane
Orange County is holding public meetings to discuss options for new, expanded and existing bus services outlined in the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan. Bus routes to be brought for public input will include rural service routes, regional service routes, and the Hillsborough Circulator. The purpose of the outreach is to obtain information regarding community bus service needs and assist in the design of future services.
As the meetings will be conducted primarily in an “open house” format, feel free to come when you can. A presentation may be given a couple of times during the course of the evening to best accommodate attendees.
Date:
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location:
Efland-Cheeks Community Center, 117 Richmond Road, Efland
Orange County is holding public meetings to discuss options for new, expanded and existing bus services outlined in the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan. Bus routes to be brought for public input will include rural service routes, regional service routes, and the Hillsborough Circulator. The purpose of the outreach is to obtain information regarding community bus service needs and assist in the design of future services.
As the meetings will be conducted primarily in an “open house” format, feel free to come when you can. A presentation may be given a couple of times during the course of the evening to best accommodate attendees.
Date:
Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Northern Human Services Center Cafeteria, Cedar Grove Park, 5800 NC Hwy. 86
Orange County is holding public meetings to discuss options for new, expanded and existing bus services outlined in the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan. Bus routes to be brought for public input will include rural service routes, regional service routes, and the Hillsborough Circulator. The purpose of the outreach is to obtain information regarding community bus service needs and assist in the design of future services.
As the meetings will be conducted primarily in an “open house” format, feel free to come when you can. A presentation may be given a couple of times during the course of the evening to best accommodate attendees.
Date:
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Fairview Community Policing Center, Fairview Park, 501 Rainey Avenue, Hillsborough
I attended the "Special Topic: Making Transportation Decisions at a Local Level" presentation a smaller section of the larger "Sketching Chapel Hill" Series, and I thought that I'd share some details that were discussed by Martin/Alexiou/Bryson Consulting. The firm presented a 50 minute PowerPoint concerning both the CTP for the greater area, the Long Range Plan and the shorter 7 Year Transportation Plans for the area, followed by Q&A. Also, on the consulting firm's website, there are some interesting bike lane sharing plans for NCSU that are pretty cool to check out.
(Cross-posted from my blog at geoffgreen.org)
Meadowmont is a neo-urban neighborhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It was designed with a mix of uses and is trumpeted as a walk-friendly community, with sidewalks along both sides of the street and a network of greenway trails. (It was also designed as a station for a light-rail line, but that's a different story.) During the approval process, Meadowmont's developer emphasized its "pedestrian orientation for working and living." So you would hope that the design of the sidewalks, roads and intersections would consistently reflect the importance of access for people traveling on foot.
Alas, you would be wrong.
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