RTA Member Briefing: August 29
- August 29, 2025
- Posted by: Jacob Rigg
- Category: Member briefing
Would you pay $1 to bypass five stoplights? How about 52 cents?
We have been proponents of the growing 540/885 turnpike system in our region for more than two decades.
It has provided an accelerated option in two ways — the freeway got built a decade or more faster (and surer), and travelers gain faster (and more certain) travel times.
NC Turnpike has an online toll calculator to determine how much you will pay to save time on your trip. As an example, can pay as little as 52 cents to bypass five traffic signals in southern Apex on the way between Raleigh or Cary and Holly Springs.
So, as many of us leave town or travel through our region this holiday weekend, your RTA staff wanted to highlight the online toll calculator that NC Turnpike has on the NC QuickPass site. Read more in this week’s blog.
Holiday travel greetings from RTA
We will keep the weekly briefing a little shorter this week, to give our members more time to take to the roadways, rails, and skies. We wish each of our members safe and seamless travels. Thank you for investing in regional business leadership.
Let’s get moving,
Joe
Joe Milazzo II, PE
RTA executive director
