We reported in the Indy this week about the Raleigh business leadership’s pushback against the STAC’s apparent consensus in favor of an ambitious “2020 plan” for regional transit service in the Triangle. (STAC, of course, stands for Special Transit Advisory Commission.) Fearing the Raleigh-Wake oppo would sink their efforts, the STAC’s chairs and co-chairs had […]
The Special Transit Advisory Commission (STAC) went all in today, agreeing in principle to recommend construction of a regional rail transit system connecting every corner of the Triangle from Chapel Hill to Durham to Raleigh to Northeast Raleigh. That’s a total of almost 60 linear miles of track.
It was a decision, as member Mike […]
Stan Norwalk, vice chair of WakeUP Wake County and an outspoken proponent of managed-growth policies around here for years, tells me he’s just about decided to run for the Wake Board of County Commissioners. Stan’s a Democrat. He’d be a candidate in the May 6 primary for the seat now held by Republican Kenn Gardner. […]
It’s all about the money now. The STAC (Special Transit Advisory Commission) was on the verge today of endorsing a “2020″ plan for the region that looks an awful lot like the original Triangle Transit Authority transit plan circa 1992 or ‘93 — back when the TTA plan included a northeast spur out of […]
Public Policy Polling is out with new data on the October 9 Cary and Raleigh elections. The front-runners: Harold Weibrecht (right) in Cary by almost 2-to-1 over incumbent Mayor Ernie McAlister. Given the TV attack ads McAlister’s been running, that’s maybe not such a shocker. And in the Raleigh at-large City Council race, incumbent Russ […]
Excellent post-mortem on the travails of the TTA rail project by “ysf,” who is undoubtedly the author of this excellent website (from which the image at left was taken). He’s Yonah Freemark, a Yale College student from Durham. To summarize his take: No local leadership; no help from either Liddy Dole or Richard Burr; […]
Yeah, that last $400 million from the feds would’ve been nice, but we weren’t getting it from the Bush gang anytime soon, so this just in —
Triangle Regional Rail System
To Take New Direction
TTA Removes Planned Rail System from Federal New Starts Process
(Research Triangle Park, N.C. – August 18, 2006) The Board of Trustees of […]
Just catching up to Mike Joyce’s letter of resignation from the Cary Town Council, which was posted here yesterday on carypolitics. It’s definitely worth a read. And then the question becomes, who should be appointed to replace him? I’m not the expert on Cary, but isn’t it obvious that Don Hyatt is the pick? (I’m […]
UPDATE: Comments on CaryPolitics.
He’s resigning from the Cary Town Council. Doesn’t fit in, they say. Right. As I’ve said to him before, the shanty Irish rarely do. But since we had that in common, we’ve always gotten along, in a “hey, knucklehead” kind of way — the liberal versus the conservative, you know? He, for […]
It was a dark and dreary night. Let’s try that again. I named my Independent Weekly column Citizen (or, actually, Citizen) for two reasons. One, I’ve always thought of myself as a citizen, with all the rights and responsibilities thereof, as opposed to being a journalist who has some special right to information. And two, […]