On the topic of a BRT AMA, I’m unable to organize that. However, if we can submit a list of questions, I can try and work with the transit planners to get some comments related to what people are interested in.
I’m keeping this simple with just one question for anyone. Please submit one or multiple questions here in this Google form. I’ll leave it up for about a week and then I’ll aggregate the responses into a kind of FAQ style writeup.
Let me know if you have any questions.
This went better than I thought. I got 22 responses, some of your submitted one or many questions.
I quickly summarized what I saw, with the help of ChatGPT, and will see if I can get those answered. Once I have that, I’ll post it here for you all to read.
So, uh, any updates?
We need answers it’s been a A year
The questions you all submitted span multiple departments. Therefore, it’ll take a sec.
Patience, please.
Big News per the City of Raleigh Instagram
Today CC authorized City staff to accept federal grants for planning, design, and development of the Southern and Western corridors. Each grant award is for $8,134,600 in federal funding plus the 20% local match of $2,033,650, which is funded through the Wake Transit Plan.
This is really great news and proves that Raleigh and Cary are committed to building BRT lines.
Here are the links to the dedicated pages for each corridor:
Western BRT Corridor -
Southern BRT Corridor -
Just to be clear, these are planning grants.
The city’s still not done with the detailed engineering designs, yet, for either of the two corridors. This is especially important since the southern line has to be timed together with NCDOT extending Wilmington St. Also, this grant does not change the fact that we’re still ultimately applying for the grant that would split the estimated costs ($174M southern + western cost estimates not yet clear) 50-50.
Though to be fair, this is a great sign that the FTA’s doubling down on their formal declaration from earlier this year that they’re getting good vibes from the southern corridor proposal. So this is clearly an important win, but let’s be clear: we still have a ways to go before we can get more shovels in the ground.
Doesn’t matter New Bern BRT is funded and full planned and still hasn’t started construction.
We honestly believed we could do light rail when busses but slightly better is a struggle. 