The original plan for Durham Station was to build a bridge between the platforms and the bus terminal across the street.
Original image of the station concept at Durham Transportation Station | Open Durham
If I understand the proposals right, the bridge would span the yellow lines here:
It sounds like that sort of rail-bus connection is already supposed to happen. I just wonder what happened to it…
This is already an assumption NCRR has in their playbooks, since like you said, they already own the right-of-way for it. If anything, this was why they kept refusing to let GoTriangle build light rail next to Pettigrew St., causing all the problems about the Blackwell St. intersection (one of Duke’s complaints that broke the camel’s back). I think it’s a problem of when, not if, for the rail owners.