Just a quick reminder that the second public workshop on the Orange County Transit Plan will be held today from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M. at the Orange County West Office Building at 131 W. Margaret Lane in Hillsborough.
The session will be in an open house format, allowing citizens to discuss and ask questions about current, new and expanded bus services, a proposed 17-mile light rail project between UNC Hospitals and downtown Durham, park and ride lots, bus and rail stations and bus lanes on Martin Luther King Blvd. in Chapel Hill.
Citizens are encouraged to provide feedback which will be shared with local elected officials as they look to finalize the Plan and make a decision about a potential voter referendum on a one-half cent transit sales tax to finance future investments.
Representatives at the workshops will include staff from Triangle Transit, Chapel Hill Transit Orange Public Transportation and Orange County. Today's meeting is different in format than the first environmental meetings which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. More information is available at ourtransitfuture.com
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All these transit meetings are getting confusing
You mention the format is different than the environmental meetings. Can you explain how they differ? Is the content different as well?By the way, these events are also on the OP calendar. http://orangepolitics.org/2012/04/orange-county-transit-plan-pub-0 http://orangepolitics.org/2012/04/triangle-transit-public-scopin
These are broad
These are broad informational meetings about the transit plan and the impact that passing the transit tax would have on transit service throughout Orange County, including enhanced bus service in Orange County, within Chapel Hill/Carrboro, and between OC and Durham and Wake.The envirionmental meetings involve the scoping process for the envirionmental and engineering review that will be undertaken for the light-rail project. It's a more narrow project and will guide the process that will result in a document discussing the envirionmental impacts of the construction and operation of the light-rail line.
Reminds me of 2020...
Reminds me of 2020...
Environmental scoping workshops
Was wondering if anyone has a report from the public walk-through workshop on Wednesday evening. I had attended the earlier "agency" workshop in my ongoing role as a conservation biologist (been one since the term was invented 20 years ago or so, an ecologist before that). This morning in downtown Durham, there was a workshop for "officials" which was well-attended. Penny RIch, Mark Chilton and I were there from town boards. Alice Gordon and Bernadette Peliissier were there from the Orange BOCC. The latter board has its own work session tonight on the transit plan. It's in Hillsborough, in the West Campus
Office Building, Room #004, off Margaret Lane and Churton Street. Ed Harrison