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Chapter 5: Implementation Guidance outlines how transportation projects are typically financed, and provides distinct recommendations for additional (or modified) policies and programs that influence how the transportation system is created over time or how it is used now. These program recommendations are focused on alternative modes of transportation since the default mode of transport in our current society – riding along in a private automobile – needs no additional encouragement. Program recommendations focus on awareness and encouragement, and include recommendations for starting a Safe Routes to School Program. This section also contains information about revenue sources and project capital and operating costs for high‐priority bicycle, pedestrian, roadway, and transit projects. A separate design guide chapter ties together the recommendations from the Comprehensive Growth Plan (2006) and expands it in terms of detail to include specific practices for incorporating public transportation, bicycling, and pedestrian accommodations into the overall transportation system. A separate guidance document (Appendix D) provides specific information on how to enact higher access management standards, the purpose of which is to increase safety and maintain long‐term capacity on existing roadways. While the Garner Transportation Plan is a fair and accurate representation of the beliefs and understanding of the Steering Committee and technical staff, no planning document lives very long or successfully if it is not updated. The Transportation Plan should be updated every five (5) years, at a minimum, and an annual monitoring report prepared in the interim years highlighting the progress towards achieving its specific strategies and recommendations. Executive Summary Page | 6
Chapter 1: Past Events and Plans 1.1 History of Garner TRANSPORTATION HAS PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE in defining Garner’s history, first with the expansion of the railroad through the area in 1847; then with Garner’s position along North Carolina’s Central Highway, which linked the mountains to the sea in the early 1900s. 1 Today, transportation has emerged as a focal point again for Garner, only this time it is centered on commuter rail and new transportation corridors that link Triangle communities. The Central Highway has become US 70, which now bypasses downtown Garner, but still provides a vital link in the town’s and region’s transportation system. The Southern Railroad is now owned by the State of North Carolina and is part of a strategic plan to connect the Triangle region and other reaches of the state with passenger and commuter rail. It would have been hard to envision a present‐day Garner with more than 26,000 residents when the area was originally incorporated in 1883 under the name Garner’s Station. The name itself is of unknown origins as the original postmaster, Thomas Bingham, had requested the name Garner’s Station in 1878 from the postal service and then departed shortly thereafter to Clayton without ever explaining the name. 2 Furthering the Town’s mysterious origins, the Village of Garner’s Station had its charter revoked in 1891. 3 Its limits covered only 400 square yards at that time and had grown to only a half‐square mile when the area was re‐incorporated in 1905 as the Town of Garner. The Town’s early days reflect a common historical link to other municipalities and their issues at the time, as well as current issues of today. The Town began paying its Mayor a stipend of $125 per year in 1907 after an expansion of local authority, and also began taxing the owners of dogs that would run loose on the streets. License fees for certain merchants – farmers were almost universally excepted – were commonplace and incredibly detailed: rope / wire dancing, tumbling, traveling salesmen, itinerant photographers were all subject to a business license. By the mid‐1910’s a portion of Garner Road had been paved with Chapter 1: History and Planning Context Page | 7
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