The Town of Chapel Hill adopts a plan for the Chapel Hill Transit to offer full weekend bus service by August while also bringing high-frequency transit corridors to Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the University area.
“The BRT Project will have its own specialized buses and everything that will run along that corridor, which means that the other buses we would currently consider running in the corridor won’t need as many buses as they’re currently using."
“These are folks that have lived their whole lives, and they want to stay in this community, they work two and three jobs, they can’t afford the rents.”
The development of the Short Range Transit Plan began in September 2017. The six goals of the plan are to improve transit mode shift, increase ridership, create high-frequency transit corridors, emphasize equity, improve weekend service and enhance the convenience of living without a private vehicle.
Town officials are advocating for the construction of the North-South Bus Rapid Transit route, the first rapid transit system in the region. The route will operate daily and span over eight miles.
After a pedestrian was injured in a collision on Tuesday, the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are taking measures to ensure pedestrian safety.
On Sept. 30, Chapel Hill Transit implemented a new and reformed HS bus route. This change aims to tackle the previous route's inconsistent and delayed times.
Carrboro's Public Transportation Week not only provides opportunity for residents to learn and explore new routes around the Carrboro and Chapel Hill area, but to examine areas of improvement.
Transit options remain available even after the Durham-Orange light rail plan failed.
“While I didn't start out thinking this was going to be one of the crown jewels and my legacy, I certainly see it as being the one that will probably have the greatest impact over the longest period of time,”
Bus riders, cyclists, business owners and residents gathered on the weekend of Friday, July 12 to discuss the bus stations that will be a part of the North-South Bus Rapid Transit (N-S BRT) system, a streamlined route that will feature dedicated bus lanes and traffic signal priority.
Chapel Hill Transit is looking to add three new electric busses to its fleet within the next 18 months.
The grip of Tammy McNair’s leather-gloved hands tightened as she watched the red light turn to green. Her foot eased off the brake as she spun the wide steering wheel, turning the bus onto Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in one smooth motion. She cruised toward campus, keeping a careful eye on the pedestrians on the sidewalk as she pulled onto one of Chapel Hill’s many narrow streets. McNair slowed to a stop at the side of the road, greeting three passengers as they got on the T bus. While many Chapel Hill residents were just then heading to work or class, Tammy was already on her second route of the day.
Whether you're going local or across towns, here's the transportation guide for you, the savvy public transit user.
With no sidewalks and no crosswalks, students that live in housing along N.C. 54 are forced to cross the highway dangerously just to make it to class on time. NCDOT plans to implement infrastructure to prevent this and make accessing transportation in this area easier.
“Cutting funds devoted to transit is taking us in exactly the wrong direction."
![Mark Marcoplos, a member of the Board of County Commissioners for Orange County, discusses reasons for the failure of the light rail initiative at Graham Memorial on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Marcoplos cites "high cost, bad faith partners... [and] outright animosity from the legislature that put all these hurdles" before the Board. He was hopeful that the light rail could generate tax revenue, help in subsidizing affordable housing, creating jobs, relieving congestion and help lower emissions to combat climate change. "A lot of people that didn't pay attention to what we could have had will never know what we missed."](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/dth/9984bd30-26b3-47a8-9f7c-b062950d8017.sized-1000x1000.JPG?w=800)
“We can blame Duke today, but I think our problems started back three years ago."
“I think if we’re not going be managing the content, then I think we want to make sure that we’re not putting on things that could be offensive or derisive to different groups."
Carolina Urbanists held a meeting on Wednesday with GoTriangle speakers to discuss local transit plans and the Orange-Durham light rail project.
After more than $130 million in Orange-Durham tax dollars was spent designing a new light rail transit system, Duke University informed GoTriangle that it will not permit construction on Erwin Road.
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