Chapel Hill Long Range Transit Plan

I'm new in town, so I don't know anyone's names, but I was sitting in the far left section on the aisle several rows back,behind the gentleman from Carrboro with long hair who asked several lengthy questions (you may have missed that part).I thought the session lived up to its billing, although the I'm a bit disappointed that the presentation didn't include much about ways to build more transit-friendly neighborhoods with CH/C. The study talks a bit about transit-oriented development, but nonetheless the study largely focuses on how to funnel people from the outskirts of town into the center. Expansion of local transit is, as they said at the presentation, "implicit and explicit" in the study, but there's a bit too much implicitness vs explicitness for my tastes.A large part of that focus likely is because these types of projections are, as the presenters said, what the federal government looks for when it decides on funding local transit projects. And admittedly these larger projects will form the backbone of the system, with the local buses filling in the pieces in between in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. With the composition of our local council, I'm optimistic these plans will be approved in some form and we can move towards building these systems. At the same time we must continue to concentrate on our neighborhoods and our local transit systems and ways to make our community less car-dependent and more sustainable.