On May 16, 2012 WakeUP and the Downtown Living Advocates hosted a lively happy hour and “tweet-up”. The panel consisted of Jonathan Parker from Triangle Transit, David Eatman from the City of Raleigh CAT program, Anne Franklin of the Downtown Living Advocated and Karen Rindge of Wake County. The group discussed …
Raleigh’s Chief Planning Officer presented at WakeUP’s 2012 Annual Meeting.
In the fall of 2011 WakeUP Wake County and the League of Women Voters of Wake County co-sponsored a series of seven candidate forums. These included Wake County Board of Education Districts 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 as well as Raleigh City Council and Mayoral and Cary Town Council …
WakeUP held a WakeUP After 5 to educate the public on Smart Growth and the New Development Code (UDO). Special thanks to 18 Seaboard for hosting this event!
Falls Lake, Wake’s main drinking water supply, is badly polluted and Wake citizens are concerned. The State Environmental Management Commission recently held public hearings in Durham and Wake counties in efforts to collect public input on the Falls Lake Rule Process. WakeUP Wake County was well represented at both Falls Lake Public …
The 2002 study of the proposed multi-modal facility added a new user group to the mix, freight. Freight train runs along the tracks of the Boylan Wye at all hours of the day and are a user group that should be given serious consideration when discussing using the tracks for …
It was determined that with approximately 9,640 weekday arrivals and departures expected by 2020(primarily CAT and TTA DMU riders), ridership in the Raleigh Metro region is high enough to warrant a multi-modal station. This study also analyzed multiple sites throughout Raleigh to determine the best location for a multi-modal station. A …
The Department of Transportation did a study of rail service and found that the NCDOT should promote intermodal stations wherever possible and recommended an examination of new high-speed ground transportation technologies that could meet intercity passenger demand at these intermodal locations!
