Raleigh is sitting pretty now with RUS/RGH in place. Cary and Durham are going to have to feel some pain to reengineer their downtowns.
Durham, in a hindsight kinda way, is going to have to undo the short-sidedness of having torn down their Union Station in 1968 when they gave priority to that car-centric Downtown Loop.
These changes are going to be just as significant as the trench dug through High Point in the 1930’s and the embankment built through Greensboro in the 1920’s.