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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.
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Your representatives on this regional Committee
Carrboro: Lydia Lavelle; Damon Seils (alternate);Chapel Hill: Mark Kleinschmidt; myself (alternate);Orange County: Alice Gordon; Bernadette Pelissier (alternate). Ed Harrison
"I'm Stuck" smartphone app complains to City Hall about traffic
These MPO meetings are traditionally quite tedious, dry, and wonky and very few citizens ever attend. But traffic issues are on everyone's mind right now. Knowledge of the MPO process and activities is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improvement.There is at least one interesting item on the agenda: http://www.dchcmpo.org/agenda/agendafiles/tac/2013-09-11/individual/Att%...>>>A new smartphone app for traffic-choked commuters won't part the seas of cars on the freeway, but it will at least get your annoyed voice heard by elected officials. "I'm Stuck" was created by Building America's Future, a political coalition dedicated to encouraging more investment in roads, bridges, and other infrastructure. (co-chairs include Michael Bloomberg, former Pennsylvania governor Edward Rendell, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.). In a week since its release, the app has been downloa ded almost 10,000 times, sending out around 1,700 letters to elected officials from people in 37 states. Commuters who find themselves trapped in traffic, airplane passengers who are stuck on a tarmac, bus riders stranded at the bus stop: All are encourage d to report their problem via "I'm Stuck," which will shoot a quick, pre-written complaint to the appropriate U.S. representative or senator, tailored to their specific mode of transit and current situation.<<<(via Fastcompany.com)Naturally our Town Council members will want citizens to wait until they arrive at their destination before "texting" them about the tieups...