RTA Transportation Breakfast 2023: Launching BRT Across the Triangle - July 2023

Be a part of an insightful conversation with elected and business leaders around the regional launch of BRT – “bus rapid transit” as well as “Buses Resembling Trains” – and hear about a complementary study of Freeway, Arterial, Street, and Tactical (FAST) transit that will link 5 BRT corridors together and directly serve RDU Airport.

You will join more than 200 community leaders who are devoted to staying on the forefront of the region’s key challenges and opportunities. The RTA Transportation Breakfast is an annual regional business community mainstay event you do not want to miss.

Confirmed elected official panelists include:

• Mary-Ann Baldwin, mayor, City of Raleigh
• Harold Weinbrecht, mayor, Town of Cary
• Leonardo Williams, Durham City Council
• Michael Parker, Chapel Hill Town Council
• Vivian Jones, mayor of Wake Forest and chair, Capital Area MPO
• Butch Lawter, chair, Johnston County Board of Commissioners
• Susan Evans, vice chair, Wake County Board of Commissioners
• Mike Dasher, vice chair, Chatham County Board of Commissioners
• Sally Greene, Orange County Board of Commissioners

Confirmed business and transportation leader panelists include:

• Jay Irby, First Citizens Bank, RTA chair
• Donald Gintzig, Wake Med Health and Hospitals
• Scott Levitan, Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
• Sig Hutchinson, chair, GoTriangle
• Brandon Jones, NCDOT, Division 5 Engineer
• Bill Sandifer, RDU Airport Authority, EVP, Chief Development Officer

Confirmed BRT and FAST Transit overview presenters:

• David Eatman, City of Raleigh
• Het Patel, City of Raleigh
• Brian Litchfield, Town of Chapel Hill
• Ryan Brumfield, NCDOT