Ken Larsen's website: Durham citizens rally to support light rail (DOLRT) - Feb 7, 2019
On Thursday, February 7, 2019 about 100 Durham citzens rallied to express their support for the Durham-Orange Light Rail project (DOLRT).
Here is a WRAL video of the rally.
Here is a second video of the rally.
Here is what Affordable Transit for All has to say about the rally.
I assert that the Durham citzens are not justified in their support for DOLRT. See Ken Larsen's assessment of Durham-Orange County Light Rail Transit Project (DOLRT).
At 8:16 into the WRAL video, Teddy Telemack says that she has succeeded in getting GoTriangle to agree to offer a living wage for all transit related jobs. Well, where do people have to go for those jobs? Answer: at the ROMF on Farrington Road in southwest Durham County. That's where all the ROMF jobs are and that is where one must go to begin a job as a train operator. That's where all trains begin and end their daily routes.
If GoTriangle really cared about providing jobs for Durham's low income people, they should have placed the ROMF in east Durham. Then, those people could walk to their jobs. With the ROMF being located in southwest Durham, they have to have a car and drive 12 miles to get to the ROMF.
Gentrification will destroy any affordable housing near the light rail route. Here's an example: https://www.heraldsun.com/news/business/article226149055.html