It feels to me like it’d make sense from a planning point of view to do just this.
…but each step to work towards a full-length busway would end up being their own project, each of which need their own environmental studies etc. From a financial point of view, would the cost savings on planning be worth it?
GoRaleigh’s more recent promotional/city council presentations make it sound like they’re prioritizing the New Bern and Western lines first (but the Wilmington and Capital lines are pushed back for later). Is it possible for them to save this project by narrowing their scope to using the $350M just these two lines? They already broke up New Bern and the other lines into separate FTA Small Starts grant requests, so it doesn’t sound like an impossible move.