The Mid-Year Meeting will consist of mobile workshops 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. 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.
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.
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 more.
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 planners