My comment was in jest. That’s what the 
was for!
Looks like 42.7 million for commuter rail. Also looks like they are starting to acquire electric buses.
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The TBJ has an article about increasing commute times as lower income folks are moving farther away from the city centers to find more affordable housing.
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Other, more specific details that I found interesting:
It looks like there’re other enhanced transfer points planned, too, but this was the only one that was this specific about its vision (or the fact that it’ll be staffed).
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Funny how we’re just talking about electric bus and I just arrived at a small town in Eastern Poland (considered less developed that western Poland) and yep they have electric buses.
Welcome to the Research Triangle, we got beat by Rzeszów, Poland.
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Is that like a charging dock that it is parked at? Pretty cool.
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Yeah at the bus stop the charging pad extends towards bus to charge up while passengers get in.
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Park City, UT has a similar system.
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The one on New Bern outside of 440 would be staffed as well.
I hope this is the right place for this. Feel free to move it, of course, if it belongs elsewhere:
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I think if we wanted to get a light rail in downtown Raleigh, since we don’t have anywhere to put the tracks on the ground, we could maybe do like a more futuristic L-Train like there is in chicago
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At first I thought you meant that the L in Chicago was “futuristic”, but I think you mean a futuristic version of it. 
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Yep 
you got it down
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Monorail!! That is pretty futuristic, and minimal ground space outside of stations. You could run it down the median of big roads (think Western/Capital/New Bern).
I think I mentioned this in another thread, Kane should build a monorail type line that runs from North Hills to Smoky Hollow to the Cabarrus development then down to DoSo/Penmarc. That would be rad.
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Monorails!! Yaay!!
(Remembering when Smedes York had floated the idea back in the 90’s of building a monorail from NCSU’s Main Campus, the upcoming Triangle Regional Rail Station through Mission Valley to Centennial Campus)
http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_146e034e-0fef-11e5-a980-933092814a59.html
And, more pretty transit pictures/links:
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Columbus’s bus ridership went from 5% to over 10% in one year due to the city giving free service to downtown workers. As the BRT gets going, I think a similar trial would be good to try in Raleigh for the next 5 years or so. This could help offset the constant and high demand for parking.
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Good read and an interesting option for developing a ridership. However, they say that no other city has tried this, but I believe City of Chapel Hill may have something similar? Or maybe I am thinking of the UNC system?
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If I remember correctly, Chapel Hill Transit routes are free for everyone (except for Park & Ride and Express bus routes), much like how all of the Wolfline routes are free.
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