There’s lots to see and learn from in South Florida. Hope they also check out TriRail. Brightline looks great, I especially hope that their ridership picks up in a big way once the Orlando route opens The folks who REALLY need to visit Brightline are NCDOT Rail.
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I think that the 10 foot traffic lanes are going to be too narrow if they are on a street with a lot of truck traffic. Think Six Forks or Wake Forrest Roads.
The offending section of Wake Forest Rd you’re thinking about has 8.5 foot lanes. It was built as a 5 lane road but (insanely) restriped to have 7 lanes.
10ft feels quite adequate on a 35mph road.
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Plenty of trucks on WF road on the daily but it’s the super-sized SUVs plowing along headed to god knows where midday that you really gotta be on the lookout for…
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Sue and her two kids need to get to Lidl and YOU’RE IN THE WAY
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Those are some pretty wide street sections. Looks like most of Western OTB is in a 120’ ROW; wonder what’s going to give if they want a 4-lane + busway.
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This is the best situation where possible for the BRT. If only that could translate to the downtown part of the BRT route but there’s so limitations.
These of course can be resolved in the future with a transit tunnel underneath DTR. 
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While the urban planners on the board are probably already familiar with this concept, I found this really interesting - the Triangle is full of “stroads”: The Stroad
(It was linked off from this article, for context: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-08/how-to-fix-brooklyn-s-worst-intersection )
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The N&O editorial board is excited about the prospects of public transit expansion in 2022:
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article256908107.html#storylink=hpdigest_opinion
I didn’t realize the commuter rail was this far along. Sounds like we could see major progress next year?
Plans call for running new commuter rail lines along existing freight lines to create 37 miles of commuter rail that will knit the region together by 2030. Key steps will take place in 2022 as a feasibility study will be completed, commissioners in Durham and Wake County will vote on providing local funding and a request for federal funding will be submitted.
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Commuter/Regional heavy rail by 2030 would be huge! Thanks for sharing the story @Christopher
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Crabtree Creek is flooding. This is just down from Wake Forest road about 5 minutes ago. Just need some boats and we’ve got new transportation!
If you search Twitter for “crabtree” you’ll see some additional shots.
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Pics taken at about 11am so really close to the max water level of the day.
The peak was 15.5ft per USGS/NOAA:
https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?gage=owfn7&wfo=rah
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Earlier this week, GoRaleigh’s board met and talked about what projects should be funded for FY2023 (July 2022-June 2023). This seems in line with the Wake County Transit Plan’s to-do list for what to invest in through summer 2031. And it has something many of y’all have been waiting for: the first phase of a high-frequency bus line along Hillsborough St. could be coming this summer!
This bus line will eventually run past the Beltline and go up to the Western/Jones Franklin intersection. That extension will not happen until FY2025, though, because the state won’t finish grade-separating Blue Ridge Rd. and Hillsborough St. until late 2023. There’s a bundle of other transit surveys that are expected in the next few months, so look out for that if you want a chance to praise/complain to the powers that be.
Other spending items that were brought up include (bolded the cool things):
- Expand bus maintenance facility and “admin tower” on Poole Rd.
- Finish up engineering/design and environmental review for Western and Wilmington BRT lines
- Improve more bus stops, presumably including those li’l seats for stops without shelters
- Replace 4 buses, and add 2 more
- Buy land for transit centers at North Hills and Triangle Town Center
- Construct the East Raleigh Transit Center
Also, morbidly fun fact: did you know GoRaleigh is the only major transit provider in the Triangle that currently hasn’t reduced any bus services (aside for the R-Line)?
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2021 Citrix Cycle stats:
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I’d love to see a heat map of station usage. One would think that the number of bike releases and dockings could be easily counted.
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what would the frequency now be for the Hillsborough St with the 4 and 100??
Every 30min for both buses; it’s right there on their websites. The 100 goes past NCSU towards RTP roughly on the :15 and :45 of every hour, while GoRaleigh’s 4 bus goes to Rex Hospital on :10 and :40.
I imagine that the 9 route would eventually force the 4 and 100’s schedules to be shifted, somewhat, since buses would bunch up together, otherwise.
Bus operator retires this week after 2,000,000 miles accident-free since 1996:
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Let’s not forget the 12, which runs every 30 minutes at peak and 60 minutes off peak, and essentially duplicates this new route 9 westward from Enterprise Street.