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Call for registration, and presentation, at Regional BRT/FAST/SMART team meeting in July

On Wednesday, July 30^th, the regional business community and our transit partners will hold our first regional BRT/FAST/SMART team meeting of 2025, from 9 am to 12 noon, with an optional lunch afterward available for purchase. The meeting will be hosted by SAS Institute, a longtime RTA Regional Leadership Team member, at their Cary headquarters campus.

RSVP here if you and/or a colleague would like to attend the team meeting. Pre-registration is required, and space is limited. The registration deadline is Thursday, July 24; we request a maximum of 3 registrations per company during the initial registration period.

A primary focus of the team meeting will be on accelerating street/arterial and freeway BRT infrastructure in our market, through methods including but not limited to innovative funding and alternative delivery. Regional and national experts on accelerating BRT and enhanced transit from several RTA Gold member firms, including VHB, Kimley-Horn, HDR, and WSP, will be presenting at the meeting. If your firm would be interested in potentially presenting, please reach out to me directly. You can also download the presentations from the prior BRT/FAST/SMART team meeting, held on November 6, 2024, via this link.

RTA Brunch — Registration Open, Additional Speakers Announced

In early August, our regional conversation on advancing enhanced freeway, arterial, street, and tactical transit infrastructure will continue at the RTA 2025 Transportation Brunch: Moving Towards a FAST Transit Future. The event will be held on Friday, August 8^th from 9 AM – 11:30 AM at the Westin RDU Airport hotel.

Here is a partial list of our confirmed brunch speakers:

• Sarah Gaskill, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies; RTA 2025 chair
• Scott Levitan, Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina; RTA legislative and policy chair
• Mike Landguth, Raleigh/Durham Airport Authority, president and CEO
• Jennifer Portanova, NCDOT, state transportation systems management and operations engineer (I-40 Regional Partnership executive)
• Brennon Fuqua, NCDOT, director of integrated mobility division
• Greg Saur, WSP; FAST 2.0 transit study project manager
• Morven MacLean, WSP
• Joe Milazzo II, RTA

Please send a note to Jacob if your company would like to serve as an event sponsor. In addition, to claim your included RTA member tickets for the event, please email Jacob Rigg or Raleigh Chamber registration coordinator Alea Morales.

What should our transportation network look like 30 years from now?

Our market’s growth has continued unabated for decades. Professional transportation planners are looking ahead for the next 30 years to determine what sort of regional multimodal network we will need . Our partners have reached out directly to RTA to engage the regional business community in this effort, and you and your associates can easily and quickly participate by reviewing three high-level comparative scenarios of future land use and mobility, and/or by taking via this online survey. There is also an online meeting this Thursday at noon. For more information, please visit this week’s RTA blog.

Let’s get moving,

Joe Milazzo II, PE
RTA executive director