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In September 2000, the City of Greenville, together with Pitt County, East Carolina University, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation, contracted with Wilbur Smith Associates and its partners CB&A Research and Cherry Consulting of the Carolinas, Inc. to conduct a Regional Transit Feasibility Study in Pitt County and the surrounding region. Based on findings within that report, the City of Greenville contracted Martin Alexiou Bryson, PLLC, a traffic and transportation planning firm out of Raleigh, NC to complete a detailed feasibility study concerning a Transportation Center in 2006. According to MAB, the Greenville Intermodal Bus Transportation Center Feasibility Study examined whether and how a transportation center would help to improve citizens’ and visitors’ mobility – both for people without cars and for those seeking an alternative to congested streets – and in turn help to maintain and improve the city’s vitality and quality of life. As well as the potential transportation benefits, downtown revitalization efforts could also be given a boost. Greenville is growing rapidly, driven by its role as eastern North Carolina’s medical and academic hub, and is facing future congestion and mobility issues. |