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If the folks guiding RTP can bring it into modern design parameters, allow housing and retail, and good transitions from transit to destination, this would have a lot better chance of being productive there.
Seems like you could build a station for the high speed rail outside of downtown Raleigh to avoid that on going mess and connect it to downtown/RDU/RTP with light rail. More flexibilty in destinations for riders, less concerns with high speed trains and grade crossings downtown.
Just because towns developed around railroad stations doesn't mean we can't change that up a bit?
The transit plans in the N&O make a lot more sense than the other plans proposed over the last 15 years. That's encouraging.
As for high-speed rail, the project is absolutely predicated on using existing RR right of way. Cold hard reality is that these existing rights of way pass through downtown Raleigh. The station doesn't have to be built there -- that's a political question -- but most of the recent ruckus would have happened anyway.
What decade do officials feel at least one Light Rail Line will be in operation?
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