Oh, the Places We’ll Go
Next week, the RTA business coalition and several of our partners will travel together for our first out-of-market overnight trip in more than four years, when we head to the Annapolis and suburban Maryland area.
We applaud honorary Maryland tour co-chairs Julie White, NCDOT Deputy Secretary for Multimodal Transportation, and NCDOT chief engineer Patrick Norman, for their leadership for the upcoming trip.
We will get a chance to learn about a multi-corridor BRT network in various stages of scaled completion, design, and planning. We will also tour a mixed use development with dedicated lanes, enhanced bus stops with longer stop spacing and all-day frequent bus service (which is not listed as “BRT” but sounds a lot like BRT to us).
Our group will have an opportunity to learn about a junior freeway (US 50), a variably-priced toll road (MD 200) with a parallel greenway (sometimes known as a “hiker-biker trail”), and an intercity rail station.
Of most importance will be the chance to connect with our partners from Maryland — and with our fellow North Carolina colleagues and friends.
We have more than 50 registrations for this one, so if you are joining us, I look forward to seeing you there, and visiting several of these places together.
Either way, we will have other upcoming field visits, including local ones in the metropolitan Triangle, and it will be wonderful to engage with more of our members then.
Let’s get moving,
Joe
Joe Milazzo II, PE
RTA executive director
