RTA 2022 Regional Transit Awareness Day

RTA Regional Transit Awareness Day was an opportunity for the regional business community and area elected and transportation leaders to focus on transit options and opportunities.

This event provided a level set / awareness of the region’s current multimodal offerings and plans through a series of leadership briefings and transit field visits, along with an understanding about the opportunities that purposeful additional investment can afford our region.

RTA thanks each of our region’s transit partners for their assistance in the planning and execution of the event.

This event has already occured and registration is closed. Contact Jacob Rigg, RTA membership operations coordinator, for more information.

RTA Regional Transit Awareness Day:
Thursday, September 29, 2022 – draft schedule overview
 (all times approximate; agenda subject to change)

• 7a – 7:15a – Attendee arrival, at RTP
  Participants will meet at 800 Park Offices Drive, RTP
  Attendees requested to arrive by 7:15 am
  Attendee registration occurs here; includes distribution of nametags, Whisper units
  Tripper buses will shuttle attendees to GoTriangle Regional Transit Center (RTC)
  Event buses provided by Chapel Hill Transit and GoDurham/City of Durham
•   7:30a – Welcome breakfast and Leadership briefing 1:  Overview of day, Cary focus, RTC, at GoTriangle RTC
  Breakfast provided by GoCary/Town of Cary
•   8:30a – Transit field visit 1:  RTC to Raleigh via regional/local bus
•   9:15a – Leadership briefing 2:  Raleigh, at Union Station
  Refreshments provided by GoRaleigh/City of Raleigh
• 10:00a – Transit field visit 2:  Raleigh to Durham via passenger rail
  Dedicated passenger coaches provided by NCDOT
• 10:30a – Leadership briefing 3:  Durham, at Durham Station
• 11:30a – Transit field visit 3:  Durham to Chapel Hill and Carrboro via regional/local bus
• 12:15p – Lunch and Leadership briefing 4:  Chapel Hill and Carrboro, at Hilton Carrboro
•   1:45p – Transit field visit 4:  Carrboro and Chapel Hill to RTP via regional/local bus
•  2:30p – Closing reception/discussion at RTP, 800 Park Offices Drive
• Closing reception hosted by the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
• by 4:30p – event scheduled to end
  

Presentation decks

• City of Raleigh / GoRaleigh
• GoTriangle / Employer Services
• NCDOT / Rail Division, Integrated Mobility Division
• Town of Cary / GoCary
• Town of Chapel Hill / Chapel Hill Transit
• RDU International Airport

Media coverage (WRAL-NBC 5, WNCN-CBS 17)

The Regional Transportation Alliance is the voice of the regional business community on transportation in North Carolina’s Research Triangle region, and a regional program of the Raleigh Chamber.

Founded in 2002, RTA is a metropolitan, private-public partnership that drives consensus and action. More than 100 leading companies work in concert through the RTA alongside more than 25 member chambers of commerce across 13 counties in central and eastern North Carolina and a host of number of regional partners.

RTA delivers business leadership to get our region moving faster. Learn more at letsgetmoving.org.