Raleigh Union Station and RUSbus Facility / Union West

Transit and Transportation
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Can’t believe all the Raleighites here don’t know this:

Tom Dundon Purchases Pro Pickleball Association (PPA) – Goes All-In on Pickleball – NML Pickleball

The best female player is 16 or something like that. Sometimes it’s on ESPN, it’s on Tennis Channel a lot. There was a short story about the origin of pickleball on ESPN and Tom Dundon was featured - there was even a shot of PNC ARENA OMG in it. Anyway, he came away from it looking a bit shady as he was talking about gambling on pickleball matches. Pretty gross if you ask me.

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Tarboro Rd. Community Center has Tuesdays and Thursdays open play pickleball from 6:30-8:30 and the crowd is very diverse. They’re very welcoming if you want to drop by and just see what it’s like!

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Quick response before Leo boots us all into a new Pickleball thread, but it’s easy to pick up and a lot of fun for all ages. If anyone ever wants to try it out, open invite from me. I have a second paddle.

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Yeah it’s basically “Giant Ping-Pong” - my mom f*%$ing LOVES it :rofl:

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I thought the Villages #1 sport was hooking up.

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That’s apres pickleball!

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:pensive: Ok now I’m tempted.

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Ping pong is actually competitive though.

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“x amount of Posts were merged into a new topic: Pickleball in the triangle”

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New to the boards here - although I’ve been reading them for some time.

We lived at Glenwood South for a bit and just recently moved to Hargett & Boylan.

There seems to be a ton of development in this area.

This facility being one. Does anyone know what impact (if any) the RUS BUS facility will have on the Moore Square Bus station?

Thanks!

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First of all, welcome to the community! It’s always great to have new voices here!
I’ve pondered the same thing about the Moore Square bus station. I don’t know if RUSBus supplants Moore Square or complements it.

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I’m pretty sure it complements it (RUSBUS = west downtown, Moore Sq = east downtown), but someone correct me if I’m wrong.

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They don’t exactly know how but the future vision is to have two downtown bus stations. How that works comes later after the BRT lines start rolling.

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That’s typically what I’ve heard as well. I’ve also heard that RUSBus is expected to have a more regional focus (primarily GoTriangle routes), while Moore Square will be more local (GoRaleigh). BRT will essentially operate as a high-frequent shuttle between the two.

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Do I hear monorail between the 2 bus depots?

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With a not too long distance between them, I was thinking something more in the line of Subway!
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I was wondering about that myself, Also, what about the Greyhound Bus station on Capitol blvd. Do they plan to move to RUS/RUSbus facility or stay where they are ? when I go catch a Greyhound bus to go to Greensboro or Rocky Mount, it is very crowded.

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I was hearing gondola.

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I swear I heard that the Greyhound buses will move to RUSBUS, but someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

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I’m very curious to see how the routing will look when it’s all up and running. Bus only lanes downtown is going to be such a game changer

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