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Sessions
In addition to Friday's Plenary
Session, the Mid-Year Meeting will include mobile sessions highlighting
examples of how transportation and land use can be successfully
integrated. During registration, you will be asked to select one (1)
morning session and one (1) afternoon session for Thursday. Sessions may
have limited openings so please register early. Every effort will be
made to ensure that your session choices will be honored but
substitutions may occur. Since some of the sessions will require
walking, please dress accordingly.
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Lynx Blue Line
Mobile Session:
Hear and see firsthand
the challenges and opportunities of implementing the state’s
first light rail line. You will see how station area plans
are guiding current development and re-development along the
line, the challenges of operating traffic signals with multiple
rail crossings, how roads and intersections were improved to
provide easier vehicular and pedestrian access to the stations,
and how the City will apply the lessons learned to future
extensions of the light rail line.
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Uptown Mobile
Session: Wear comfortable shoes for this mobile
exploration of some of uptown Charlotte’s recent and upcoming projects that
exemplify how transportation and land use can be successfully
integrated. Projects to be visited include the reconfigured
I-277/Caldwell/South interchange, NASCAR Hall of Fame, Johnson & Wales University area transportation
improvements, future Charlotte Knights baseball park, the future
multi-modal Gateway Station, the Uptown Charlotte Pedestrian Wayfinding
System, two-way street conversions, the Brevard Street Study, and much
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Elizabeth/Midtown Re-Development Mobile Session:
Visit two areas just
outside Uptown Charlotte that are undergoing significant changes.
At Elizabeth Avenue,
planned re-development, along with a road diet and new streetcar tracks
shows some of the challenges of working in an urban landscape. At
Midtown, see how a former mall site is being re-designed to include
“Urban Big Boxes”, a new street network, and significant extension of an
urban greenway, all next door to a freeway interchange. Both areas
demonstrate a variety of challenges and opportunities for engineers and
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If you have any questions
about the meeting, please contact Andy Grzymski at
agrzymski@ci.charlotte.nc.us
or 704-336-3928. We look forward to seeing you!
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