INC NEWS - ACTION: Email GOVERNOR (East End Connector)

[Caleb Southern]

INC unanimous support of East End Connector:

http://www.durhamloop.org/Support/INC.htm

 

 

The East End Connector needs your support with an email (see below). Thanks
to everyone who attended the public hearing on June 8, and who filled out
the NCDOT comment form. And, as always, please check out www.DurhamLoop.org
<http://www.durhamloop.org/>  for updates on this issue.

 

Please send an email to Governor Easley (and our state delegation). 

 

There is a sample letter below that you can use, which outlines the
statewide benefits of this road (above and beyond how it will help Durham).

 

 

Thanks for your continued support!

Caleb Southern

 

 

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EMAIL TO:

governor at ncmail.net; mickeym at ncleg.net; paull at ncleg.net; paulmi at ncleg.net;
winkiew at ncleg.net; jeannel at ncleg.net; boba at ncleg.net; info at durhamloop.org

 

SUBJECT LINE:

Support Durham East End Connector

 

SAMPLE EMAIL BELOW

 

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Honorable Governor Mike Easley:

 

The people of Durham need your help. We need your support for a
transportation project of statewide significance, the Durham East End
Connector (NCDOT U-71). I respectfully urge you work with NCDOT to find
construction funding for the East End Connector in the 2006-2012 state
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). 

 

This project is eligible for state Highway Trust Fund money. The EEC has
been on the books since 1959, making it the oldest un-built highway in the
entire state. Durham, an original 1989 Highway Trust Fund "urban loop" city,
has yet to see any projects built with our share of this money.

 

 

Uniting North Carolina: East and West

 

See a map at:

 <http://www.durhamloop.org/Maps/NC_East-West_route.jpg>
http://www.durhamloop.org/Maps/NC_East-West_route.jpg

 

Governor Easley, you speak of "One North Carolina". Currently, residents
from the East and the West are divided by state's worst traffic congestion -
the bottleneck on I-40 through Research Triangle Park. Traffic already parks
here for hours each day. In the year 2025, DOT projects 240,000 cars a day
on this section - which would require a 14-lane freeway (not planned) to
keep traffic moving. I-40 is the bridge linking NC residents East and West
of Raleigh, and it is broken and divides our state.

 

DOT has plans to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build a second story
on the I-40 bottleneck in RTP. There is another solution - one which is much
more cost-effective.

 

The East End Connector is the lynchpin that will complete an alternate
East-West route across our state. Residents in Rocky Mount, Wilson,
Greenville, and the Outer Banks can travel west across the following
freeways - while completely avoiding I-40 gridlock.

 

Alternate East to West freeway route:

-          US-64 and US-264 (from Rocky Mount, Wilson, Greenville, Outer
Banks)

-          I-540 (Northern Wake Expressway)

-          US-70 (from Raleigh to Durham)

-          East End Connector

-          NC-147 (Durham Freeway)

-          I-85 (to Greensboro, Charlotte)

 

It's a straight line joining our state together - and bypassing Raleigh and
the I-40 bottleneck.

 

 

A New North-South Bypass

 

See a map at:

 <http://www.durhamloop.org/Maps/NC_North-South_route.jpg>
http://www.durhamloop.org/Maps/NC_North-South_route.jpg

 

The East End Connector will also complete a N-S freeway bypass of the
Triangle, linking I-85 N to US-1 S. This route will relieve traffic on both
15-501 and US-1. It will also greatly improve access to the Sandhills region
- which will be a boon for tourism and help events like the US Open in
Pinehurst.

 

New North to South route:

-          I-85 (south to Durham)

-          US 70 E

-          East End Connector

-          NC-147 S (Durham Freeway, through RTP)

-          Triangle Parkway

-          I-540 (Western Wake Expressway)

-          US-1 S (to Sanford, Pinehurst, Rockingham)

 

It's a straight line, a new limited-access freeway joining I-85 N with US-1
S.

 

-          15-501 Bypass

>From Sanford to Durham

Relieves traffic on 15-501 through Pittsboro, Chapel Hill, and Durham

-          US-1 Bypass

>From Apex to Henderson

Relieves traffic on US-1 through Raleigh, the beltline, Wake Forest, and
Franklinton

 

 

Local Support in Durham

 

The East End Connector is supported by a broad-based consensus in Durham as
our top priority. The business community, neighborhood interests, and
environmentalists have united behind this project. However, NCDOT has
delayed its construction indefinitely in the TIP. We need your help to
restore construction funding for this popular and long overdue road, which
will help connect people all across the state of North Carolina.

 

Thank you for your assistance.

 

 

Sincerely yours,

 

 

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