Category: <span>News: WakeUP to Good Growth</span>

Category: News: WakeUP to Good Growth

Legislative budget poses concern for transit and water

The state budget approved by the General Assembly will have a profound impact on issues critical to growing counties like Wake. North Carolina legislators have finalized the budget, which includes a pay raise for teachers, but limits passenger rail funding and delays scheduled steps to clean the county’s water reservoirs. …

WakeUP’s community forum on transit to feature Anthony Foxx as keynote!

This is the key year for improving public transit in Wake County! That’s why on June 20th, WakeUP is hosting Wake Transit: moving us all forward, a community forum all about the Wake County Transit Plan and the incredible benefits of public transit. We are excited to announce that the …

Raleigh is increasing water fees – here’s why it’s a good thing

The City of Raleigh is in a tough spot. Since the drought of 2007-2008, Raleigh Public Utilities (and WakeUP) has been encouraging water conservation by residents, and the program has resulted in less water being used per person today than ever before. That’s great for protecting our drinking water and …

DEQ Report Says SolarBees Unlikely to Clean Jordan Lake

The Department of Environmental Quality has released a report concluding that the SolarBee mixers in Jordan Lake are not removing pollution from our drinking water. WakeUP has maintained that in order to clean up Jordan Lake, municipalities need to follow the state-approved clean up plan. However, the General Assembly voted …

Raleigh City Council discusses Bike Share

TODAY the Raleigh City Council discussed a bike share program in a room full of bike share supporters including WakeUP! Councilors had questions about financial support for the program and logistics which were answered by Raleigh Transportation Director Eric Lamb, Councilman Bonner Gaylord, and Commissioner Sig Hutchinson. Representatives from Citrix, Rex …

Missed our Annual Meeting? View the keynote presentation on RTN!

WakeUP was fortunate to have UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus David Godschalk speak at our Annual Meeting in January.  The presentation was informative and inspiring, but if you weren’t able to be there, don’t fret!  His keynote presentation was filmed by Raleigh Television Network (RTN) and is being broadcast several times …