Welcome to Save64.org
Welcome to Save64.org!
Did you know that there is plan underway to change US-64, from Cary to Pittsboro, into a freeway/elevated expressway? If you didn’t, you are not alone…
Save64.org was formed by a group of concerned taxpayers to stop the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s proposed plan to alter US-64 “from its current condition to a freeway and expressway,” with portions being elevated (NC DOT, US 64 Corridor Study, Issue No. 1, March 2008), at a cost exceeding $406 million.
Save64.org has set up this blog to provide a centralized source of information and relevant links on this issue. The committees of Save64.org will post project developments here as they emerge.
How can you help?
Register your opposition at the NC DOT website.
Call your local and state elected officials to register your opposition.
Tell your friends, family, and favorite businesses about Save64.org.
Have ideas to further spread the message of opposition to this project? We’d love to hear them. Register and post a comment here.
Together we can form a voice that will be heard. Please remember, we need to act now!
Thank you for your support,
The Committee of Save64.org
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Important Links
Link to a video simulation of the project (scroll down to the middle of the page and click the play button, in the middle of the large YouTube screen)
http://ncdot.org/doh/preconstruct/tpb/SHC/studies/US64/Solutions/
Link to the NC DOT website, which includes lots of information on the project
www.ncdot.org/~us64study
Dave Wasserman, NCDOT Strategic Planning Office and Principal Project Engineer dswasserman@ncdot.gov
Don Voelker, Director, Strategic Planning DOT (David Wasserman reports to him) djvoelker@ncdot.gov
Susan Coward, Deputy Secretary DOT / Chief Operating Officer Intergovernmental Affairs and Budget Coordination (Don Voelker reports to her) scoward@ncdot.gov
Peter Trencansky, URS Corporation / Consulting Engineer on this project peter_trencansky@urscorp.com
Are there any meetings in place?
Want to sign a petition against the expansion of US 64? Visit here…
Gifts n More
Next to Kroger at Lake Pine
952 US Hwy 64 W
Apex, NC 27523
information on Save64.org’s Community Meetings will be coming soon…watch this space. In the meantime, tell your friends and neighbors about us…and ask them to sign our grassroots petition at Gifts n More in Apex. Thank you for your help!
Want to volunteer? All are welcome. We are especially seeking fired-up taxpayers to speak at community group meetings. We also are looking for volunteer legal expertise…write privately to workon64@aol.com for more information!
STOP THE GREAT WALL OF TRAFFIC!
The DOT of NC is prepared to turn US 64 between US1 and Lake Pine into a monstrous elevated expressway — a 20-foot wall on top of which will ride 4 lanes of cross state traffic … 18-wheelers, commercial traffic, passers through of every description. It will be a magnet for noise and pollution … it will encumber our properties … it will diminish the quality of life we have come to know and destroy the residential character of this stretch of US64.
Worse still, it is a totally UNNECESSARY undertaking!
With 540 slated to cross US64 BARELY TWO MILES from the intersection of US1 and 64 West, why not just finish 540 and conduct traffic AROUND our residences rather than right THROUGH them!
i heard this this long term plan won’t be implemented for well over 10 years — for now the plan is simply to make u.s.64 a superstreet, isn’t it?
this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t carefully examine and have input on the long term plan, though.
So, WHY is the State crying that they are in a deep $2B deficit, and then turn around and plan a $450M elevated Freeway to PITTSBORO (population 3000). Thats just insane. Its our freeway to nowhere.
I cannot believe that the DOT wants to extend the high way through Jordan Lake? Where is the sense in all of this? I’m not sure we want to encourage more uncontrolled growth seems our water resources are all ready spread to thin as it is?
Can’t 1-64 carry traffic below Jordan Lake?
Why not create Business 64, and continue 1/64 westward?
It’s just a few miles from 1 to Pittsboro. No need to destroy established communities or encourage traffic through Jordan Lake.
If NCDOT wants to plan 30 years a head they really should be looking at this option, while it is still a possibility.
NCDOT needs to consider the preservation of community and Jordan Lake as equally important as what they perceive to be the most efficient flow of traffic.
What is needed here is a balanced approach that promotes intelligent solutions not some ridiculous expressway/freeway concept that only divides communities and destroys our watershed?
Why don’t they understand the time frame is not the issue?
We want to preserve what we have now and forever.
I think it is great NCDOT wants to think 30 years ahead, So let them explore the better alternatives that exists here and now.
JMHO
Mitch,
The Super Street concept will have a huge and major consequences upon this community.
Developers were encouraged to build residential communities all along the corridor, now DOT wants to implement the “Super Street” concept?
It’s easy to think that there are miles of wooded land behind 64, but that is just not true. There are peoples homes all along the corridor, not to mention a library and a High School that make up this community.
How can you encourage people to build residential neighborhoods, invest their life savings, than pull the rug out from underneath them?
Apex and Cary are often sited as some of the best places to live in America, and 64 played a huge role in that. Some of the first planned developments in the area were built right along side 64.
If the whole country holds the area as an example of what is right, why would we want to change to be more like the rest of the country?
Apex, Cary and Chatham are not supporting this study, their concerns are not being addressed so why is NCDOT continuing to waste taxpayers money on this?
What we are talking about is community and peoples lives, not what NCDOT deems as the most efficient way to move traffic.
What happened to 540? Why not finish 540 before producing mega virtual reality road ways? How much money was wasted on that project?
NCDOT has a huge deficit, and many other problems that need to be fixed, why waste the time and effort on 64 when Capital Blvd. needs help today?
540 will be built, why not by pass the whole mess and save the tax payers the over 30 million NCDOT will throw at a temporary solution?
Why not synchronize the traffic lights to maximize traffic flow on 64?
NCDOT has said the Super Street is only a temporary solution so why implement a temporary solution to a road that is working just fine? There are no huge traffic back ups on 64.
The final solution NCDOT plans expands the existing Road Way to over 300 feet, more than tripling the width of the existing road way. Sure now that they have heard that the community is outraged they will decouple the plans but that means nothing the Super Street is a flawed temporary unnecessary waste of time.
The community sees this as unacceptable and they are willing to stand up and protect what they built.
1/64 to 540/64 bypass.
I was surprised to see no one from the Wake Sheriff’s Office at this meeting ,not to have a presence there shows some lack of concern or notification on someone’s part. Road patrol’s should be a Sheriff’s concern.I am running for sheriff of Wake County in 2010.An expansion of this type should be a concern for any Sheriff with Law Enforcement experience.In my area on NC 55; patrol’s are in need of improvement in the South side of Wake County.Many wrecks, some at least 4-were total losses since last July 2008.One intoxicated man landed in a pool just off the road last July 12,2008.A log truck wrecked in my area just days ago.So,with a road like this under proposal ,planning to be built should always be attended by the Sheriff Office for patrol planning of the area.I’m really concerned about visible patrols in my area.A few weeks ago, I got out of the way of an intoxicated driver,he crashed just about 2-miles from where I moved over to let him pass on NC 55,south of Fuquay -Varina. As Sheriff of Wake County 2010 ,I will work to improve service for all the area’s in Wake County.. Visible patrols are a start for deterence of crime.To not see visibility of the Sheriff Office, shows complacent mind set by someone.All of this road will be patrolled by the Sheriff Office at one time or the other;a presence is needed .Proactive law enforcement for our families should be paramount,top priority at all times . Working to improve service should be a constant GOAL.. Thanks, JAmes(Jay)Willis Sills,Jr. “Improving service for Wake County,should be the goal ;not complacent operation of the people’s Office .”
My home backs up to US64. When I’ve asked the state planners if a sound barrier will be erected I was told that it could only go up to mitigate existing noise. In other words. They must wait to see how much noise is created before the planning can commence. When I asked about the failure to include a high speed rail corridor within the 30 year plan there was some sort of equally baffeling comment that basically said DOT build roads. I surely hope they are roads of steel thirty years in the future.