Have an opinion on Raleigh’s First Friday events? There’s a survey for that.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FirstFridayRal2019
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Please take this survey about community engagement!
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A new low, all these surveys need to be done away with. This surveys are holding us back not moving things forward, we elected the people to solve the problems on our own not use us we need results not time.
Nope. We elect representatives to represent us, we still need to use our voice to tell them how best to represent us…
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Yeah but one or two surveys on the specific issue like BRT how long you want the route, not survey because of placing of a stop or amenities (no one care about) and stuff they know they can figure out. 1 or 2 is good not 7 to 8. And one more thing personally I don’t think there needs to be surveys on buildings they don’t affect you building a 40-story downtown is not a big deal no survey should be on that, especially if it’s a win-win for both the council and the developer.
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I feel that. Raleigh definitely goes OD with studies, I agree they should get some public input, then go the F%$@ ahead with some plans haha
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GoTriangle is apparently thinking of improving/expanding/moving the Regional Transit Center in RTP. If y’all want to convince them to look into having safer, walkable transit centers (with better restaurants and stuff too??), here’s the place to tell them.
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More ways to tell people things!
This time, the RTA is looking for people who fly through RDU for business trips. It’s implied that they want to use this survey to justify adding flights to Latin America, China, India, and/or more places in Europe as well as to look for better ways to respond to COVID-related problems.
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Blount & Person St Two-Way Conversion Survey
Check out the presentation first, then follow their link to the survey.
Found it interesting that favoring the use of modal priority in the downtown street network to make one street a transit street, another a bicycling street, another a commuter access street, and so forth, instead of balancing the needs of all users on all streets equally is on the table.
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I haven’t read much about configurations like this, so I didn’t really know how to rank it. It sounds like it could be good, but I could also see it discouraging non-car trips. Especially if there aren’t enough interconnected bike / ped routes, and/or if some roads become more dangerous to bikes / pedestrians due to being optimized for car travel (more traffic, higher speeds, etc.)
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I posted about this in the Dix Park thread, too, but there’s an application to be a part of the Dix Park Community Committee if you want to be a part of Dix-related developments.
The application is open until July 1, if you also want to make your development nerdiness useful for something:
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Win $100!
The DRA has a survey about your perception of Downtown Raleigh.
If you have friends that own businesses downtown, pls share with them!
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There’s a community-launched idea to (among other things) turn the inefficient, underused freight rail line cutting through Dix Park into a major greenway connection. It’s been gaining traction the past few weeks -but to keep that going, we need your help to give it a name!
If you haven’t already, please vote here by tomorrow (July 11) at 7pm!
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The FAST network study released some preliminary ideas on how to make buses in the Triangle better!
…but they want comments by email, which I thought is stupid.
So I made a survey-ish thing, and y’all can be a part of it too:
“A part of it”, because you can add your own ideas for others to vote on, too. This platform was one of the tools that made Taiwan’s direct democracy initiative a success, so I figured it could help here as well.
Check back here often, and let me know what you think!! You don’t need to answer every single question on here, though you will make my life easier if you vote on more things.
I’ll run some statistics and make them into an open letter by the end of the Preliminary Results’ comment period at the end of August.
More about this survey!
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Figured this should be over here as well.
EDAT survey, on how much areas around transit should be upzoned, and what other tools can be used to improve equity. http://planningforraleigh.com/10174/
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This sounds exciting! …though I wish they were more specific about why they chose the thresholds they did (like why should only 1/3 of TOD residential bonuses be affordable?)
For those of y’all who like details but don’t want to watch an 8-minute YouTube video, they’re suggesting that the city seriously do two things:
- beef up transit overlay districts (TOD) around BRT stations with tax incentives + increased height/density allowances if a project uses the extra building space for additional jobs or affordable housing
- make it easier to build “missing middle” housing through residential TODs around BRT stations by lowering the regulatory bar to build them
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