Regional Transportation Alliance

Updates

Tolling Begins on Toll 147 portion of Triangle Expressway, North Carolina’s first modern toll road

North Carolina’s first modern toll road, the Triangle Expressway (“Tri-Ex”), begins collecting tolls today, Tuesday, January 3, on its first phase north of NC 540. The Toll 147 section of Tri-Ex, which opened to traffic in early December, extends highway 147 south more than three additional miles and creates a new signal-free connection between I-40 in Durham County with NC 540 in Wake County.

The Toll 147 turnpike freeway creates a new north-south connection through Research Triangle Park that avoids travel on I-40 and provides access to both Hopson Road and Davis Drive. Parallel connector roads between Hopson and Davis will serve as new, toll-free linkages for local RTP motorists.

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10th Annual Meeting a Celebration of Mobility

The Regional Transportation Alliance business leadership group held its 10th annual meeting on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at the Embassy Suites Raleigh/Durham/Research Triangle in Cary. The event included recognitions for outgoing RDU Airport Director John Brantley, Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker, Durham Mayor Bill Bell, and long-term investors in the RTA.

The celebration also included presentations on both the State of Mobility 2011 as well as a look to the future of transportation in our market, and remarks from incoming RDU Airport Director Michael Landguth. You can download the entire presentation deck from the event here.

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RTA endorses Durham transit referendum

Enhanced transit options in Durham and throughout the region will be increasingly important to our success and quality of life as we continue to grow. The RTA has formally issued a statement of support of the fall 2011 Durham transit referendum and enthusiastically supports the vision and leadership of Durham – the central county in our region – to move transit forward by authorizing a referendum on a half-cent sales tax for transit investment.

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