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5 007 What steps should be taken by leaders in the Research Triangle area to develop a regional ublic transportation system? Public transportation will be an important link in the regional trans- portation network of the future, and it can have an important role to play in determining land use patterns and development. It can not only carry many people to their jobs and other destinations, but it can also be the focus of desirable development in high density corridors. To achieve the optimum blend of highways, public transportation, and development, area leaders must take a proactive, anticipatory role in coordinated land use and transportation plan- _ ping: In this regard some very specific recommendations are offered with re- spect to public transportation. During the next two to five years: • 1. Develop an organization to carry out regional public transportation. planning and operation. . 2. Emphasize carpooling and vanpooling through the existing regional Tat. A Ride program. 3. Initiate regional bus service with a public or private operator 4. Increase the number of park-and-ride -lots to serve the expected in- crease in carpools, vanpools, and express buses. 5. Preserve potential transportation corridors for light rail service, as well as highways, in order not to foreclose any future transportation possibilities. . 6. Reconsider development goals and explore the feasibility of high den- sity development along transportation corridors. - 7. As preliminary planning progresses for new highway lanes in over ca- pacity corridors, examine the feasibility of building commuter lanes instead of general traffic lanes. 8. Depending on the outcome of preliminary planning studies, construct commuter lanes in the medians of 1-40 between Raleigh and Chapel gill, the Durham Freeway, and the Northern Wake Freeway. During the next five to 10 years: • - 1. Depending on the existence of high density corridor: development and the pace of such development, examine the feasibility of a light rail system which connects downtown centers, residential and shopping clus- ters, and employment locations in the Triangle region. During the next 10 to 20 years: 1. Depending on the feasibility of light rail service, design and con- struct a regional light rail system.