Heart of the Triad plans is beating behind the scenes.
The internal leaders of the Heart of the Triad project want it known that the lack of public activity in recent months does not mean an absence of progress or waning commitment to the unprecedented regional planning process.
That message was prompted in part by comments in this space a few weeks ago that the process appears to be stalled and that the steering committee co-chairs were loudly lamenting the loss of momentum. More than four months have passed since the last public meeting.
"This process is very much alive," says Brent McKinney, Executive Director of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation, who is in the centre of the planning.
Indeed traffic and land planners from Guilford and Forsyth counties have continued to meet in the interim. Earlier this week, the project's technical committee, made up of those planners, met with project consultants David Taylor and Robert Bush of Tampa.
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