Planning for the Middle Creek Transportation Center is underway, but people living in the Apex neighborhoods surrounding the area are not happy about what it will become.
Janine Patel understands the Wake County school district is growing and changing rapidly.
“It’s a great area to live, so everybody wants to come here. I’m not a native of this area and we came here too, so I understand that,” she said.
She said the plan to build a Middle Creek Transportation Facility, however, is a growing pain.
“I feel like this particular location is not the best,” she said.
The plan is to build a nearly 23-acre transportation center for Wake County schools off Optimist Farm Road, near Middle Creek High and Elementary schools.
The $29 million design would include a 60,000 square foot maintenance building, a 19,000 square foot building for operations, 262 parking spaces for buses and 300 spaces for staff.
The plan is too much for Patel and others, who have been commenting on neighborhood chat boards with their concerns about the location and traffic impacts of the project.
“I really think it’s just not the best road to put it on. It’s really curvy, there’s an S-curve right there,” Patel said. “The traffic is already bad enough so safety and traffic are a big concern.”
A Wake County schools spokeswoman said the project will be completed in two phases. The lot for the facility will be laid by 2022 and the design phase will be voted on at a meeting next Tuesday.
