I think there’s a new one - mostly white with light green diamonds on the sides, and a light blue rear end. (This is all from memory.) Has anyone seen it? I’m guessing the design is from the 80s or 90s, but I don’t know.
I am trying to navigate the clunky 100 bus schedule from RDU to Raleigh to no avail. I did as Google and got an AI answer that the 100 bus does indeed run all day. I was hoping to find information about the frequency during the day. Does anyone either know the frequency or have a link to the schedule information? When I click the PDF link for the schedule, I get nothing.
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So, Google’s AI says that I can take the 100 Bus from RDU midday, but the schedule you provided doesn’t indicate that. Can you shed any light on this?
Other than it being Google AI? 
Per this info from GoTriangle (which matches the posted Route 100 schedule) between 6 am and 6 pm a shuttle to the RTC location is provided from RDU.
EDIT: Added the RDU-RTC shuttle schedule
So RTC shuttle from Terminal 1 (12:08 pm) or Terminal 2 (12:10 pm) to RTC (arrives 12:25 pm).
Route 100 departs RTC at 12:30 pm.
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I will say that Google’s results for GoTransit (GoTriangle/GoDurham/GoRaleigh/GoCary/Chapel Hill Transit) Routes are often bad. You have to reselect them on the agencies website in order for the schedule to appear and the links to work.
But yeah, as mentioned, at most times you take the RDU Shuttle to Regional Transit Center, where you can take buses to Raleigh/Cary/Durham/Chapel Hill. There are still a few times when the 100 serves RDU on the way to/from Raleigh, in the evening (after 6). Hopefully we’re going to the RDU Shuttle at all hours soon.
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simplified for you (charactersssssssssssssssssssssssssss)
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The Transit app is pretty reliable for trip options.
However I have the PDF schedule/maps for the half-dozen or so GoRaleigh routes I use stored in a folder on my phone along with a system map and a platform diagram.
Same thing for the two GoTriangle routes I might use. Just added the shuttle info since I had it handy.
I frequently might go downtown on one route but return on another. Almost never go to the downtown station. Just navigate among the bus stops instead.
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Thanks for all of the guidance!
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The Transit app looks really good actually. I downloaded it recently because my elementary school daughters have romanticized the idea of public transport after visiting New York City for the first time. They are dying to take the bus from University Park to the Museum of Natural Sciences one weekend…. but i’ve yet to actually do it
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I live on the east edge of that neighborhood in the Village District.
There are a couple of shelters on Cameron both eastbound and westbound that serve the 12 (Method) and 16 (Oberlin) routes that run one-half hour apart from one another on weekends if the district is a convenient departure point
The inbound and outbound routes for both are different. So I would take the 12 inbound until it turned off Peace onto Salisbury and get off between Jones and Edenton on the west side of the museum.
The outbound route for the 12 can be caught at the stop on Wilmington on the east side of the history museum. Return trip can be timed to catch that one-hour frequency.
Also the 16 outbound serves the stop on Edenton just around the corner from the Salisbury stop and offers an alternating half-hour frequency to the 12’s schedule.
If closer to Dixie Trail in that neighborhood the 4 (Rex Hospital) runs both ways on Dixie Trail every half-hour. Goes inbound on Hillsborough to Salisbury (one-block walk to museum) and outbound on Edenton.
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Looks easy enough! 
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It’s a GoTriangle bus! I see it on the DRX/CRX pretty regularly.
Maybe this has been covered/asked before but is there a known reason or a logistical reason that the 100 doesn’t service RDU directly?
My own strongly held belief is that it shouldn’t. Jarrett Walker of Human Transit wrote an article about the keys to Airport Transit here: Keys to Great Airport Transit — Human Transit
To route through RDU adds 20 minutes, which would be worth it if there was a lot of downtown Raleigh to RDU demand but Raleigh is not a uniquely strong downtown of Triangle. I’ve never seen more than 5 people get on or off at RDU, and usually it’s much less. You could easily argue that Durham and Chapel Hill would also both deserve downtown to RDU express buses but I don’t see it as viable to have both an RTP express (as the 100 currently acts) and an RDU express that both operate frequently.
So either we dilute the frequency or we choose one. One of Jarrett’s points is the importance of Airport transit to airport workers. An airport worker going every day is a better customer than someone else who who goes to the airport a few times a year. Which hammers home the idea of connecting to a lot of destinations, since airport workers are unlikely to live downtown. More people go every day to RTP, and it creates a quicker connection to Durham and Chapel Hill.
In short, skipping RDU on the 100 makes more trips faster for more people and allows more people to connect to RDU faster using the RDU Shuttle. I hope one day we get rid of the part time deviation to RDU.
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That is what confused me. It does run through RDU at certain times but not at others.
I ended up not taking the bus home yesterday because it was raining and I didn’t want to walk the last half mile with luggage and a backpack in the rain. A friend picked me up. I was actually looking forward to learning how the shuttle from RDU to the transit station worked in real life.
Ah I see. Thanks for the link!
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I’m not sure where the half mile walk was in your trip, if you don’t mind clarifying?
The 100/RDU Shuttle stop is across the street from the Terminal, and all of the bus stops at Regional Transit Center are within 300 feet of each other. Google Maps is sometimes weird and doesn’t route all the way into the Transit Center, even though you should ride it all the way there since GoTriangle pulses ( Basics: Finding Your Pulse — Human Transit ) from Regional Transit Center.
From the stop on Hillsborough St. to my home at the end of the bus ride. That’s why I said “last half mile” in my previous post.
any type of private link up (if it doesnt allready exist) with city help and possible use of non-downtown city bus stops? in reno when i lived there, the city station permitted Mega-bus to dock there to SF, CA.