On Friday, August 8, 2025, at the RTA Transportation Brunch, RTA and our partners were pleased to receive findings from the FAST regional transit 2.0 study, including a potential I-40 / RDU Airport Exchange Station, and an update on the New Bern Avenue BRT project in Raleigh.

RTA has endorsed the accelerated transformation of US 1 / Capital Blvd. to a multimodal freeway with complementary parallel access road system from I-540 to the Wake/Franklin Co. line. While this is a “fully-funded” project in the 10-year state transportation improvement program (STIP), we have endorsed an accelerate upgrade of the corridor, via innovative funding, financing, and/or project delivery. We have previously endorsed consideration of accelerating the project and ensuring its timely construction via dedicated toll revenue from static, peak period-only tolls. We are currently focused on identifying a viable, accelerated solution path with our local, county, regional, state, and federal partners.

RTA and our member chambers of commerce, in concert with the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina and the Central Pines Regional Council, are spearheading a campaign to maximize federal funding to replace, relocate, and lengthen the primary runway at RDU.

RTA and the NC Chamber are leading the push for an access user fee to modernize highway funding. An access fee — which applies a consistent fee to all registered vehicles, regardless of annual usage — is a simple, fair, and resilient way of replacing the state gas tax and keeping vital moving.

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