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Council endorses locally preferred BRT alignments for Midtown and Triangle Town Center corridors
Summary
After a brief presentation of the Northern Corridor Major Investment Study, council endorsed Midtown alignment 6 and Triangle Town Center alignment 3 as locally preferred alternatives and directed staff to pursue design, environmental work and federal funding pathways.
The council unanimously endorsed staff recommendations for two locally preferred alternatives in the Northern Corridor Major Investment Study for Wake Transit: Midtown corridor alignment 6 (Capitol Boulevard to Midtown via New Bern Avenue and Wake Forest/ St. Albans) and Triangle Town Center alignment 3 (Capitol Boulevard to Triangle Town Center).
Transportation planner Het Patel summarized the study's technical work and emphasized implementation steps: adoption of the locally preferred alternatives into the Capital Area MPO metropolitan transportation plan (a required step to pursue federal funding), preliminary engineering, environmental documentation and a request for qualifications for design consultants. Patel said local Wake Transit funding is currently programmed in later years (2033–2035) but the city has funding available for preliminary design and may seek federal competitive grants to accelerate delivery.
Councilors asked whether the two corridors would be submitted separately for federal grants and Patel said they would be analyzed independently for competitiveness. Councilor comments also linked BRT to potential land-use changes along Capitol Boulevard and called for coordinated planning so transportation and housing strategies are not siloed.
Council motioned and voted to endorse the preferred alternatives, allowing staff to proceed to the next steps needed to pursue federal funding and design work.
