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Capital Area Transit Service For Wake Tech Begins Jan. 5 |
December 29, 2008
The Raleigh City Council has approved an agreement for Capital Area Transit (CAT) to extend transit service to Wake Technical Community College.
The Wake Tech bus service will begin on January 5, 2009. The regional express route will travel between Moore Square Station and Wake Technical Community College, 9101 Fayetteville Road. The only stops are on Blount Street beside Moore Square Transit Station, Lighthouse Convention Center on Tryon Road near Wilmington Street and Wake Tech.
The service will operate hourly from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on days when Wake Tech is in session. On days when classes are not in session a modified schedule will be in place. The route will be fare free from Moore Square Station to the campus for Wake Tech students with a valid ID. All others pay regular fares. Wake Tech students will pay the regular fares on all other CAT routes. For full details of this route, click here.
Prepared by:
Chris Riley
Senior Public Affairs Specialist
Public Affairs Department
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Raleigh To Go To Single-Stream Recycling Jan. 1 |
December 29, 2008
Raleigh To Go To Single-Stream Recycling Jan. 1
The City of Raleigh will transition to single-stream recycling collection on January 1. The change will mean that collection crews will no longer need to sort recyclable materials between paper products and containers. All recycling bins will simply be emptied into the truck. The transition will mean that crews will be able to cover more ground during their shifts.
“A lot of people like to help the crews and sort the materials themselves,” said City of Raleigh Waste Reduction Specialist Linda Leighton. “We have been asking people to put containers at the bottom of the bins and paper on top to make things easier. They won’t need to worry about it come January 1. The crews will simply dump everything into the truck.”
The change will come because of updates and improvements made by the City’s recycling contractor, Sonoco Recycling Inc. The company has invested more than $3.5 million and expanded its facility at 111 S. Rogers Lane by more than 22,000 square feet. As a result, the company changed from a manual system to a fully automated facility that can process twice as much material.
The transition will also reduce the fixed price the City receives from $26 per ton to $16 per ton. While the City will receive less revenue, the change should save the City money in both time and equipment. The split-body trucks used for dual-stream recycling cost $60,000 more than traditional rear-loading trucks. In fiscal year 2008-09 the new system will save $180,000 as three new trucks were previously scheduled for purchase.
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