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The regional business community is pleased to support a vital discussion on state transportation funding, including the NC Chamber’s Destination 2030 initiative, and the ongoing NCDOT FIRST Commission study.

For this week’s post, I celebrate the Blue Ridge Parkway, America’s longest linear park, and invariably among the visited portions of the National Park Service in the country.

This week we held the 12th annual meeting of the I-40 Regional Partnership with updates on over a dozen active and upcoming projects in the Triangle.

This week’s virtual RTA Transportation Breakfast included excellent presentations on two RTA-led studies, and an executive discussion on making enhanced transit a reality.

The FAST and zero fare pilot studies cannot provide the specific implementation “answer” for either of these initiatives– but they can point the way toward a more effective multimodal future.

7 of the 10 proposed FAST freeway and street corridors will link directly with one of the approved BRT lines for the region.

We want feedback from the business and broader community on the Freeway And Street-based Transit (FAST) concept.

Construction for the newest section of 540 is now widespread.

Celebrating a “solstice of freedom” from June 19th through July 4th

There are at least four freeways or future freeway corridors that can get us quickly and safely from the Triangle to all of our coastal resources.