The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carr-boro Metropolitan Planning Organization found that fighting congestion in the Triangle will be expensive. Even spending “about $3 billion in road improvements and another $3 billion to beef up public transit” will leave commuters fighting a lot of congestion, reported the Durham Herald-Sun. Another study mentioned in the same article, however, found that even with public transit ridership rising from 81,000 a day now to 191,000 a day in 2035, “about 58 percent of the people commuting to work in the area will do so alone in some sort of automobile, and that about 39 percent will carpool. The remainder [3 percent] will rely on public transit.”
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