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Friday, October 12, 2001
Chapel Hill Town Council Discusses Transit System
By Jon Dougherty
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council held a
work session Wednesday to discuss possi
ble transit systems that would link Chapel
Hill and Durham along U.S. 15-501 and
counteract possible traffic growth.
But after oudining potential solutions,
including bus systems and railways,
questions still lingered.
The consulting group HNTB Inc.
started an evaluation of the area in 1995,
at the council’s request. The council ini
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tiated the study to look into the most
viable solutions for eliminating conges
tion along the corridor between Chapel
Hill and Durham.
David Bonk, Chapel Hill’s trans
portation planner, presented the report
to the council oudining the issue and
possible solutions.
Bonk said the ridership on the
Chapel Hill public transit system totaled
39,000 nders a day in 1995. He said that
by 2025, this number is expected to be
closer to 119,000.
Bonk said potential solutions include
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improving the existing bus systems and
creating a light railway system.
The new bus system would include a
guideway system where buses would
have their own roads, separate from the
main flow of traffic.
There also is a possible system that
would combine traffic and guideways
for the public transit.
The second option Bonk presented
for reducing traffic is using lightrail tran
sit in the corridor. The proposed lightrail
would use either electric or diesel power.
A key difference between the electric
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and diesel trains is the cost of construc
tion and operation, he said. The electric
system costs between 20 and 30 percent
more than the diesel trains, he said.
Several council members expressed
reservations about the HNTB recom
mendations.
Council member Pat Evans said she
was concerned the project would not leave
the ground anytime soon. “I don’t know if
this will happen in my lifetime,” she said.
Council member Joyce Brown pin
pointed certain drawbacks with the ligh
trail systems. “These trains are extremely
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ly alleviate a funding shortfall, Shelton
said. The additional funds gathered from
increased enrollment could be allocated to
academic programs early next week, pos
sibly combating the effects of cuts, he said.
The provost said he founded an enroll
ment policy advisory committee a few
months ago, and the group is now assess
ing an admissions strategy for fall 2002 in
light of the possible additional cuts.
Admissions Director Jerry Lucido,
who heads the advisory committee, said
admissions officials have room to lower
target enrollment numbers for fall 2002
because this year’s enrollment exceeded
expectations. UNC officials were aiming
for freshman enrollment of about 3,500
this year, but numbers actually totaled
about 3,700, Shelton said.
As campus officials begin to plan for
the cuts, other state officials are working
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The Capital Campaign Steering
Committee will meet in the early morning,
and the Natiqnal Campaign Committee
will have a meeting at 12:30 p.m.
Classes are suspended from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. to encourage attendance at the
events, but Shelton says he worries about
scheduling University Day on a Friday.
“The veterans here tel! me it’s prob
lematic because you take a Friday and
cancel afternoon classes, and the stu
dents are out of here,” Shelton said.
Despite his concerns about student
participation, Shelton said he is eagerly
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ular, he called Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein an “evil man” and added,
“we’re watching him very carefully.”
While the current focus is on Afghanistan,
he said “we’re looking for al-Qaida cells
around the world” -and if the United
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loud when they start up and can be heard
from a good distance,” Brown said.
Several members also were con
cerned with the environmental impacts
the various systems would have on the
community.
Bonk said the firm will conduct fur
ther studies to address these issues.
Another issue raised by council mem
bers dealt with how the transit corridor
would be affected by a road proposed
by UNO’s Master Plan. The 50-year
blueprint for campus growth proposes a
link through Mason Farm Road in the
to ensure the cuts are minimal.
UNC-system President Molly Broad
said the brunt of the budget reductions
would be felt during the spring semester,
since it would be difficult for individual
campuses to cut funding for the fall
semester that is already under way.
Easley’s office could not be reached
for comment Thursday.
But Shelton said the cuts will not affect
spring course offerings at UNC-CH.
More likely, the cuts would delay facul
ty recruitments and filling open positions,
he said. Shelton said revenue accumulat
ed from alternative sources, such as
research grants and private fund raising,
could help sustain integral academic
resources and are reason to be optimistic.
But Broad indicated that unless there
is an unprecedented economic rebound,
the UNC system will sustain some cuts.
“The most optimistic scenario (for
economic growth) is a 2 percent net,
instead of a 4 percent net,” Broad said.
If the state’s revenue projection does
awaiting the events that he helped plan
- especially because this is his first
University Day at UNC. “Color me new
and naive, but I’m really excited about
this,” said Shelton, who became UNC’s
provost eight months ago.
Sue Estroff, chairwoman of the Faculty
Council, said student involvement in
University Day is especially crucial this
year due to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“Now, as always, University Day is
about cherishing our past and imagining
our future,” Estroff said. “And I think
we’re all going to do our damnedest to
make sure that future is bright.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
States finds any, it will pursue them.
The news conference capped a
national day of remembrance. There
were memorial services around the
nation to remember the more than
5,000 people killed when terrorists
seized four commercial airliners and
crashed them into the World Trade
Center in New York, the Pentagon and
the Pennsylvania countryside.
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same area of the discussed corridor.
But Bonk told the council members
that it was too early to get too specific
because both the corridor and the road
are still in the planning process.
“We will have to look at the effects
the proposed road might have,” he said.
Bonk said a HNTB representative
would be attending next Wednesday’s
council meeting to explain the more
technical sides of the proposed systems.
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not reach at least 2 percent growth, the
system could lose some of the $57.5 mil
lion in repair and renovation funds that
are being held by the governor.
But Shelton said he is skeptical that
the University will ever see the money
Easley has frozen. He added that UNC
CH’s 2001 reserve for repairs and ren
ovations now will not cover about $11.7
million in previously slated projects.
Bruce Runberg, associate vice chan
cellor for facilities services, said the pro
jects included roof repairs for five build
ings and the installation of new fire alarm
systems in seven campus buildings.
Projects funded by the $499 million
allocated to UNC-CH from the $3.1 bil
lion state higher education bond refer
endum that passed last year will not be
jeopardized, officials said.
“The bond money is still there,”
Shelton said. “That’s the irony.”
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udesk@unc.edu.
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the opportunity to demonstrate what we
mean, to take action to protect academ
ic freedom and free speech,” he said.
Another crucial priority for Moeser last
year was the development of science and
technology. Tony Waldrop, vice chancel
lor for research and graduate studies, said
he has seen firm evidence of that com
mitment from Moeser in the last year.
He said he has been particularly
impressed with Moeser’s efforts to extend
research through alliances with other uni
versities. “I would definitely give us an A
plus in that category,” he said. “It was a
wonderful year in terms of research.”
The Carolina Computing Initiative, a
project Moeser inherited from late
Chancellor Michael Hooker, also has pro
gressed under Moeser’s guidance,
although officials say budget cuts have
hurt UNC’s ability to deploy technology.
Finally, Moeser said his single greatest
goal was to increase the University’s
fund-raising efforts. The Carolina First
campaign, a $1.5 billion, three-year effort,
was set to begin its public phase with an
announcement today. But the public
phase launch was delayed because of the
political and economic state of the world.
Moeser said his commitment to fund
raising is still strong, with $621 million
raised so far, putting the campaign ahead
of schedule. “I still think it’s the most
important thing we will do this decade.”
Speed Hallman, director of develop
ment communication, also said he has
been impressed with the progress in the
last year. “Our priorities haven’t changed.
We’re still raising funds to support facul
ty, students and programs," he said.
Moeser said that by working toward
these tasks, he hoped to see UNC reach
the pinnacle of public universities. And
Provost Robert Shelton said nothing in
the last year has changed that pursuit.
“I don’t think the terrorist attacks ...
in any way detract from our goal of
being the best public university and the
way we pursue it,” he said. “We’re going
to do things differently, but it doesn’t
force us to change our goals.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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