Wouldn’t this just make the full connection of the Artery easier?
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By George, you are right. Thank you for the illustration!
Asking a question that will come immediately to some minds here, will the Artry improve the vibe of the bus station, or will an intercity bus station hurt the vibe of the Artry? Personally, and because I am inherently optimistic, I think it would be a cool introduction to the city for folks traveling in by bus or rail.
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No! No you’re not the only one.
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Raleigh is definitely an uppity nimbyism City that pretends the working class doesn’t make up a majority of the population. That’s why we can barely compete with other cities our size. Raleigh is the old school south…
Just look at the posts… “We don’t won’t yer kind round here…”
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No timetables yet but looks like it will be competitive with driving. Right now the route takes a 10-mile detour to serve a mostly-empty Park and Ride off Eubanks road in deep north Chapel Hill. The planned route will be much more direct.
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What is this in response to? The INDY article comments? Did you miss the part where Greyhound literally chose, all by themselves, to build their depot off of Bumf*ck Capital Blvd and decided, all by themselves, that they had no intentions to move it downtown? They literally owned land off of Lane St/Harrington (if I’m recalling the right plot) to build a future depot but abandoned their own plans.
So again, what was this troll-ish comment in response to? Also miss me with pretending Durham is any better to its working-class population lmao. If anything, they’re even worse, they just have less population (and national prominence - not a Capital City) in general than Raleigh.
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That’s where the station used to be before moving out to Capital Blvd. I don’t remember them ever saying they had plans to build a new one there.
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So even worse then - they moved the station FROM downtown and have specifically said they have no plans to move BACK lol
Again, all the decisions made by Greyhound, themselves. Nothing to do with the City of Raleigh.
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Lane/Harrington is where the old greyhound depot was. They sold it off to a developer who built apartments. It’s that building across from Quorum that had the huge fire during construction a decade or so ago.
I don’t believe Greyhound ever owned any other downtown property beyond that.
Anyway Greyhound is not a highly profitable company and they have been looking to save money (or turn red ink black?) by selling off valuable real estate. This has been a pattern all over the country.
Anyway RUSBUS is clearly not conceived as an intercity terminal. I wonder if, once the RUSBUS parking deck is open, and the West Street extension is complete, perhaps the parking lot inside the wye can be removed and replaced with some intercity bus bays.
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Posted yesterday on GoTriangle’s social media platforms (along with a timelapse video):
Construction on the Raleigh Union Station Bus Facility is on track to open in August 2025!
The new bus station will be a transit hub for GoTriangle routes 100, 300, 305, and the DRX and will also include GoRaleigh routes 9, The R-Line, FRX, WRX, and ZWX.
We will have more details on the opening of RUS Bus in the coming months!
Here’s the Facebook post if you wanna see the timelapse.
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Is the 
still there?
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Better yet, a gravel parking lot!
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what is the deal with the “ramp to nowhere”? will there be buses up on that level or only on ground floor? is this bus barn going to open with basically the first floor of the bus station open, and then we have to endure more years of construction by the OTHER developer to add more parking ramps where these guys stopped? This process is SOOOOO confusing.
It’s only on the ground floor. The ramp is for parking lots for the future apartments that will sit on top of the bus station. (It was also supposed to have hotels and/or offices once upon a time, but you can blame post-covid interest rates for that idea going away.)
Yes. Welcome to the club; the rest of us agonized over this years ago, when that odd timeline slowly became clear to us. You can thank the Trump administration for that, since his first administration’s BUILD grants imposed an unusual 5-year deadline for spending grant money (it’s normally 10).
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Thanks for the explanations. I will thank the Trump admin, but for other reasons than this !
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So all the bus lines that my wife and I use the most often (9, 100, R-Line) are moving across town. Bummer
If these were fixed-guideway it wouldn’t be so easy to change them. We hear the argument a lot that the flexibility of bus over rail is helpful in responding to demand, but probably does not cause much investment or generation of demand, because the bus lines can be changed or done away with at any time. Case in point, I guess
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Well, not necessarily. The post doesn’t specify which routes will exclusively serve RUS. The 9 and the R-Line already serve Union Station on West Street, and I’m pretty sure that part of the plan is to retain those on-street stops for routes that continue on to GoRaleigh Station. Worth keeping this in mind:
This project essentially makes it so GoRaleigh and GoTriangle now have their own separate stations in Downtown Raleigh. As such, I’d imagine GoRaleigh will want to continue having all of their downtown routes serve their station (especially the R-Line, seeing as the sole purpose of that route is to function as a downtown circulator).
The one thing that I do find odd about this post is the absence of the CRX. Does that imply that it will only serve GoRaleigh Station, or was this an unintentional omission?
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At least for the 100, the GoTriangle Board of Trustees had a discussion item last Wednesday on shifting the 100’s route so that it would serve both RUS and GoRaleigh Station.
Note that this also gets rid of a few stops along Hillsborough to make the bus run more smoothly, too.
This meeting attachment from GoTriangle makes me think that the 9 would also continue to serve both bus terminals:
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