Comprehensive Transportation Plan Update
At a glance
- What: the update of the town's 2019 Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP): project prioritization, 19 roadway cross-sections, greenways, transit, an implementation plan, and a priority intersection study. Led by transportation project manager Bret Martin.
- Where it stands: on September 22 the council received an information-only briefing (no vote). Roadway/intersection prioritization was shown in June; greenway prioritization, cross-sections and the draft implementation plan (immediate, near, mid and long-term tiers) were new. The plan is not fiscally constrained.
- Next: priority intersection study October-February (Davis Drive at Morrisville-Carpenter Road; Church Street at Trey Brook Drive, Jeremiah Street and Downing Glen Drive); landscaping guidelines and a signalized crossing study on Aviation Parkway due November; draft program and policy measures back to the council December 8; public review and adoption consideration December-April.
Key proposals
- Standards: 11-foot travel lanes, 6-foot sidewalks, 10-foot side paths, 5-foot bike lanes with a 3-foot buffer.
- Bus lanes for the Wake BRT western extension; Morrisville-Carpenter Road interim bike lanes with side paths long term; Church Street three lanes south of Mason Farm Road and two north.
- Bicycle/pedestrian crossings of the NC Railroad (Kit's Creek Road and Barbee Road to NC 54) as near-term concepts, with no project-level study yet.
Concerns and requests
- Safe crossings at McCrimmon Parkway and Davis Drive near the new high school (project U-5747 design).
- Coordinating with Cary on intersections that straddle the town line; rail safety given the proposed railroad merger.
- Harrison Kesling asked for a combined existing-and-proposed map of bike lanes, side paths and greenways to find gaps, and looked at redundancy, separation and two-way bike lanes.
- Planning and Zoning Board feedback: railroad crossing cost versus impact, side path education, "don't block the box", vertical bike-lane protection.
- Ashit Patel asked how prescriptive the cross-sections are once adopted (amendable, but developers can vest).
Discussion time
About 75 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).
| Meeting | Minutes |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 - Town Council Regular Meeting | 75 |
Log
- 2026-09-22 - Town Council Regular Meeting — Information briefing with roughly 75 minutes of questions; staff to produce a combined bike/greenway gap map, check rail-safety jurisdiction, and look at two-way bike lanes and right-of-way impacts; returns December 8.
- 2026-09-03 - Planning and Zoning Board — Board received the greenway results, cross-sections and implementation plan; members pushed for the railroad crossings, side-path education and fixes at Morrisville Parkway and Davis Drive (from auto-captions).
- 2026-07-30 - Town Council Work Session - Bret Martin noted that the BRT extension is not in the 2019 plan but will be in the updated plan council considers this fall; a Davis Drive recommendation includes a bus lane in the future six-lane section.