Public Participation Partners | Wake Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): New Bern Avenue Design
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Wake BRT: New Bern Ave Polling Station
 Polling station hanging in bus shelter with stickers to indicate transit riders preferences.
Wake BRT: New Bern Avenue Design Polling Board
 Wake BRT Polling Board
Wake BRT New Bern Ave Design – Yard Sign
 Wake BRT New Bern Ave Design - Yard Sign

Wake BRT: New Bern Avenue Design

City of Raleigh | Raleigh, NC | May 2020 – present

 

Project Background

Public Participation Partners is leading the public involvement and communications for the Wake Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): New Bern Avenue Design. This project aims to complete the design phase of the New Bern Avenue corridor of the Wake BRT system, which will connect downtown Raleigh with WakeMed and New Hope Road.

 

P3 Deliverables

To kickoff the project, P3 managed the development of a BRT systemwide virtual open house, which provides information to residents and stakeholders on all four BRT corridors as well as Raleigh Equitable Development Around Transit and the BRT Branding and Station Design. P3 coordinated efforts between multiple consultant teams and the City to create a cohesive and user-friendly virtual open house experience. These efforts included the development of narrated videos, project handouts, and graphics.

 

While current projects efforts are primarily virtual due to COVID-19, to increase accessibility, the P3 team conducted direct outreach to religious institutions along the corridor and developed a strategy for safe non-virtual resident polling. P3 developed stand-alone polling stations that asked residents to place a sticker to indicate their preference. These polling stations were placed at various high-traffic bus stations around the city to reach participants who may not have been reached otherwise by virtual methods. In the second virtual open house, the six polling stations along New Bern Avenue gathered over 330 responses from participants using the GoRaleigh bus system.

 

Project in Process

 

Project Communications Examples:

Wake BRT Survey Results Graphic

Date

September 01, 2020