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CAMPO updates council on Triangle Bikeway East design, outreach and funding options
Summary
CAMPO senior planner Kara Russell told the Raleigh City Council that preliminary design for the Triangle Bikeway East (RTP to West Raleigh) is advancing toward a final alignment, with a public survey set for Jan. 21–Feb. 25, draft cost estimates around $83–$89 million, and construction funding still to be determined.
Kara Russell, senior planner at the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), told the Raleigh City Council that preliminary design work for the Triangle Bikeway East — a planned multiuse path linking Research Triangle Park to West Raleigh — is advancing toward a final alignment and expanded public outreach. "Our survey will go live next week, January 21, and it will run all the way through February 25," Russell said during a council briefing.
The Triangle Bikeway is conceived as a transportation corridor, not only a recreational trail, Russell said, and the preferred alignment adopted in a 2022 feasibility and implementation study follows the I‑40/NC‑54 corridor. CAMPO and Triangle West TPO adopted the study in 2022; CAMPO is managing the preliminary design for the eastern section on a partnership funded for design by Wake County and the Research Triangle Foundation.
Russell said the design work now focuses on the…
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