
{"id":24272,"date":"2012-03-01T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=24272"},"modified":"2012-02-29T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T22:54:56","slug":"boa-talks-triangle-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/03\/01\/boa-talks-triangle-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"BOA talks Triangle Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Would Carrboro residents use Triangle Transit to commute to Durham and Raleigh? The Carrboro Board of Aldermen thinks so, and on Tuesday considered just where a Triangle Transit stop might be located in Carrboro. <\/p>\n<p>Transportation planner Jeff Brubaker discussed the feasibility of a Triangle Transit stop on West Weaver Street, near the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s municipal parking lot. Triangle Transit provides regional bus service as far east as Zebulon and as far west as Chapel Hill. <\/p>\n<p>Triangle Transit had a stop at Carrboro Plaza in the 1990s, but service was discontinued, with the closest stop to Carrboro now at Carolina Coffee Shop on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. <\/p>\n<p>Brubaker said that 16.3 percent of Carrboro residents who commute to work use public transit, compared with 10.3 in Chapel Hill, 1.7 percent in the Triangle and 1 percent statewide, according to the American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. Within a half-mile of the Weaver Street municipal lot are 712 residential addresses and more than 1,200 residents older than 18, and within 2 miles, 7,984 residential addresses and more than 12,000 residents over 18. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Brubaker said that the municipal lot, which has a capacity of 33 cars, is only one-third full at peak usage and could potentially be used as a park-and-ride lot for commuters. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What I like about this proposal is that it does try to identify a place that can be a park-and-ride for Triangle Transit in downtown Carrboro,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d board member Lydia Lavelle said, adding that the Chapel Hill stop doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t serve commuters as a park-and-ride. <\/p>\n<p>Lavelle, who lives in Fox Meadow in northern Carrboro, said she would like to see a transit route that goes from the northern part of Carrboro to downtown Durham, noting the large number of people who use the Eubanks Road park-and-ride to commute to Raleigh. <\/p>\n<p>Brubaker said 27 percent of Carrboro commuters work in Durham. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Chilton said he would like to also explore the possibility of using the parking lot at Wilson Park as a park-and-ride lot for a Triangle Transit stop, since much of the parking lot is unused much of the time. <\/p>\n<p>Board member Jacquie Gist cautioned that the lot at West Weaver, which now has a two-hour parking limit, might fill up with cars of residents commuting to UNC, rather than to Durham or Raleigh, if it were opened up for use as a park-and-ride.<\/p>\n<p>Town staff will look into several locations as possible park-and-ride locations for a Triangle Transit stop and report back to the board on how best to make a proposal to Triangle Transit officials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Would Carrboro residents use Triangle Transit to commute to Durham and Raleigh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24302,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272\/revisions\/24302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}