RTA June 2024 Richmond QuickTour

The RTA June 2024 QuickTour to Richmond, Va. was an opportunity to visit a nearby peer city for quick, intentional field visits of a freeway cap, BRT, and other multimodal infrastructure. More than 70 attendees participated in the tour in June 2024.

The regional business community believes that the June 2024 RTA QuickTour to Richmond, Va. will inform conversations on:

• Multimodal freeway caps
• BRT (bus rapid transit; “buses resembling trains”)
• Walkable, transit-oriented development
• Zero fare transit policy
• Intercity passenger rail
• Urban trails
• Accelerating and scaling community development

RTA June 2024 QuickTour – summary working agenda

• 9:30 am – Arrival and registration in Richmond, Virginia
• 10:00 am – RTA tour program begins / welcome, introductions, overview
• 10:30 am – Freeway cap overview
• 11:15 am – Field visit to Kanawha Plaza
• 12:30 pm – Working lunch, including BRT, TOD, intercity rail
• 2:00 pm – Field visit to Pulse BRT
• 3:15 pm – Closing reception, closing remarks, next steps
• by 4 pm – Formal RTA tour ends, depart Richmond
• after reception: optional bonus walking tour of T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge

The program agenda above does not include travel time from North Carolina to Richmond. Travel to Virginia is not included in the tour.

NOTE:  The tour will involve a few walking segments; rarely will those be longer than 15 minutes in duration.

Click here for the detailed agenda.

RTA QuickTour Slides

RTA June 2024 QuickTour – partial list of speakers and organizations

From metropolitan Richmond:

• Calvin “Woody” Fowler, Wiliams Mullen, chairman, president, and CEO
• Lincoln Saunders, City of Richmond, chief administrative officer
• Adrienne Torres, Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC), chief of staff
• Henry Bendon, Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC), communications specialist
• Dironna Moore Clarke, City of Richmond, office of equitable transit and mobility
• Mike Sawyer, City of Richmond, city transportation engineer
• Tiffany Dubinsky, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT), director of transit planning
  
• Grant Sparks, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT), director of statewide transit programs
• Gerica Goodman, Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA), director of external affairs and communications
• Jon Oliver, Kimley-Horn
• Daniel K. Papiernik, HNTB (for RMTA)
• Fiona Clarke, HNTB (engineering intern, Howard University; for RMTA)
• Lucas Torregrossa, HNTB (public engagement intern, American University; for RMTA)
• [TBD]   Flatiron Construction, BRT project manager

From the metropolitan Research Triangle:

• Leonardo Williams, City of Durham, mayor of Durham
• Joe Milazzo, RTA, executive director, emcee of the RTA QuickTour
• Sarah Gaskill, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, RTA chair-elect

RTA June 2024 QuickTour – sponsors

• Williams Mullen
  
• Kimley Horn
• Town of Cary
• WSP

Contact Jacob Rigg at 919.664.7062 or jacob@letsgetmoving.org if you would like to sponsor the tour. See below for more information.

The Regional Transportation Alliance is the voice of the regional business community on transportation in North Carolina’s Research Triangle region. RTA was founded by the chambers of commerce in Durham, Raleigh, Cary, and Chapel Hill 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 is a regional program of the Raleigh Chamber.

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