Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Your feedback needed with regards to short-range transit

Just got this email a short time ago.

Triangle Transit has released their draft Short-Range Transit Plan (SRTP) for public review and comment. The plan will guide improvements to current services and expansion of services into new areas over the next five years. To learn more about the SRTP recommendations, download a copy of the draft SRTP, and provide your feedback, please visit the SRTP website: http://www.triangletransit.org/srtp.

OK, Ralwegians (Hey, if folks from Liverpool can be Liverpudlians, and those from Glasgow are Glasweigians, and folks from Halifax are Haligonians, why can't people from Raleigh be Ralwegians? It's much cooler sounding than "Raleighites"), here's your chance to review Triangle Transit's plans and provide feedback.

Among the plans coming down the road, so to speak:
– Triangle Transit will evaluate all routes for on-time performance issues and implement service changes that will help us move toward the goal for each route to achieve on-time status for 90% of its trips. (2009, 2010)
– Triangle Transit will install bus stop amenities at several bus stops at which ten or more people, on average, board per day. Priority will be placed on the locations with the largest number of boardings. (2009)
– Triangle Transit will establish a demonstration program for wi-fi access on up to twenty vehicles in the fleet. We will also work with the City of Raleigh and Capital Area MPO to evaluate the feasibility of successfully implementing transit signal priority in the US 1 Corridor.
Expansion of Service (2009)
– Triangle Transit will implement hourly peak-period express service on weekdays between a park-and-ride location in Wake Forest, Triangle Town Center, and downtown Raleigh. Hourly mid-day service will be provided between Wake Forest and Triangle Town Center, where a connection to local Capital Area Transit (CAT) service is possible. The service will be operated in concert with a local circulator within the Town of Wake Forest and is the result of a partnership between Wake Forest, Raleigh, and Triangle Transit. (2009)
– In coordination with the Research Triangle Park and RTP Employer partners, Triangle Transit will implement RTP demonstration projects to evaluate their effectiveness at improving transit access to employer sites within Research Triangle Park. (2010)
– In partnership with the Towns of Knightdale, Wendell, and Zebulon, and/or others, Triangle Transit will implement new express service that will provide hourly peak-period service from park-and-ride locations in Zebulon, Wendell, and Knightdale to downtown Raleigh. (2010)
– Triangle Transit will work with the City of Raleigh and North Carolina State University Transportation, which operates the Wolfline Transit Service, to coordinate the distribution of transit resources along the Hillsborough Street corridor from downtown Raleigh to the NC State Fairgrounds/Carter Finley stadium area in order to provide high-frequency (15 minute headways or better) service in the corridor. (2011)
– In partnership with Clayton, Garner, and/or others, Triangle Transit will extend existing Route 102 (Raleigh - Garner), providing hourly peak period service from park-and-ride locations in Clayton and Garner to downtown Raleigh, with a potential extension to NC State University. (2011)
– In partnership with Apex, Holly Springs, and/or others, Triangle Transit will extend existing Route 305 (Apex-Raleigh) to Holly Springs, providing hourly peak period service from park-and-ride locations in Holly Springs, Apex, and southern Cary to NC State University and downtown Raleigh. (2013)
– In partnership with the City of Raleigh, RDU Airport Authority and/or others, Triangle Transit will implement service between downtown Raleigh and RDU Airport, also serving an existing or future park-and-ride facility in Wake County. (2013)
– In partnership with the City of Raleigh, Wake Tech, and Fuquay-Varina, service between downtown Raleigh and Wake Tech will be extended to a park-and-ride location in Fuquay-Varina. (2013)

1 comments:

RonB said...

It would be nice if those time tables could be bumped up with a quarter cent sales tax...

With the rising cost of gas, extending routes north (Wake Forest), east (Knightdale/Wendell/Zebulon), and south (Clayton/Garner) should be a year or less away, not 2-3+ years. Also, Wake Tech used to run a bus from their (south) campus to Moore Square bus station. Did that stop? Triangle Transit's incorporating that into a fixed route could be helpful. While they are at it, they can look into creating a route to the new north wake tech campus off 401 and extend that to a potential park and ride lots in Rolesville and/or further up the 401 corridor.