RTA Transportation Breakfast 2023

Click here for the summer 2024 RTA transportation brunch event, held in August 2024.

RTA held an insightful conversation with elected and business leaders around the regional launch of BRT – “bus rapid transit” as well as “Buses Resembling Trains” – and hear about a complementary study of Freeway, Arterial, Street, and Tactical (FAST) transit that will link 5 BRT corridors together and directly serve RDU Airport.

Attendees joined more than 250 community leaders who are devoted to staying on the forefront of the region’s key challenges and opportunities. The RTA Transportation Breakfast is an annual regional business community mainstay event you do not want to miss.

Elected official panelists included:

• Mary-Ann Baldwin, mayor, City of Raleigh
• Harold Weinbrecht, mayor, Town of Cary
• Leonardo Williams, Durham City Council
• Michael Parker, Chapel Hill Town Council
• Vivian Jones, mayor of Wake Forest and chair, Capital Area MPO
• Butch Lawter, chair, Johnston County Board of Commissioners
• Susan Evans, vice chair, Wake County Board of Commissioners
• Mike Dasher, vice chair, Chatham County Board of Commissioners
• Sally Greene, Orange County Board of Commissioners

Business and transportation leader panelists included:

• Jay Irby, First Citizens Bank, RTA chair
• Donald Gintzig, Wake Med Health and Hospitals
• Scott Levitan, Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
• Gordon Merklein, UNC Chapel Hill
• Than Austin, NC State University
• Bill Sandifer, RDU Airport Authority
• Brandon Jones, NCDOT Division 5
• Sig Hutchinson, chair, GoTriangle
• Ellen Beckmann, Durham County

BRT and FAST Transit overview presenters:

• David Eatman, City of Raleigh
  
• Het Patel, City of Raleigh
• Brian Litchfield, Town of Chapel Hill
• John Vine-Hodge, NCDOT Integrated Mobility Division

You can watch a brief video containing panelist remarks about BRT in the Triangle here.

Presenting sponsor:  Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina

Event Sponsors:  Credit Suisse; Martin Marietta, Town of Cary

Directions to RTA Transportation Breakfast 2023 at Westin Raleigh-Durham Airport

• I-540 to exit 3 / Lumley Rd.
  
• From EB 540 (i.e., from I-40): Left onto Lumley at end of off-ramp, then right at next signal onto Arco Corporate Drive…
• From WB 540 (i.e., from US 70): Straight across Lumley at end of off-ramp onto Arco Corporate Drive…
• Once on Arco Corporate Drive, travel 3/4 mile to first stop sign at Macaw Street
• Left onto Macaw Street, travel less than 1/4 mile
  
• Westin hotel and parking is on left side