For folks that live downtown, the GoTriangle Route 100 is a great way to get to the airport. Comes every 30 mins. We use it a lot for our inbound trip to airport and usually uber / lyft home. Nice to have the option! Route details here (not you will need to modify the drop down menu to select RDU airport and regional transit center as the direction of travel vs. Raleigh): Maps & Schedules | GoTriangle
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I use Route 100 as well. Why pay $25+ for an uber when the bus station is a 7 minute walk from my house. It’s also around 35ish minutes one way. That’s very reasonable.
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I hear ya, in some ways living downtown means you don’t need much transit because why go anywhere else? I work downtown and live in East Raleigh, so I take the bus to and from work.
But, other surprisingly good routes I have taken are to:
-5 points and back
- North Hills and back
- Down Hillsborough street anywhere and back has loads of bus service
- Downtown Cary and back, really good route for a trip to Bond Brothers Brewing.
- The airport (already mentioned)
- Durham (ride the shoulder)
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I live downtown and walk to the GoRaleigh Station every morning to ride the DRX to work in Durham. I can’t wait until the bus station at Union Station is complete, it will definitely enhance the overall bus commuting experience and is much closer for me. Other than the select drivers who are not comfortable riding in the shoulder, my overall experience riding the bus daily for the past five years has been great and is improving with the increasing frequency of the routes.
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I hope that it’s true that this building will also keep its warehouse facade like the Dillon did.
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Hillsborough/Downtown and Crabtree. Kidding me? Not have to deal with parking at all. Sitting in traffic when you don’t have to focus on it is even nicer.
This is the truth. It’s sort of like the “reduce” part of Reuse/Reduce/Recycle. Sometimes the best transit is the one that we don’t need. Even without robust transit options, I find myself using my personal car way less often because I live downtown. And, when I used my car, I am going shorter distances & less often, contributing less to the overall clogging of the roads than when I lived in a car dependent environment.
I went from driving upwards of 18,000 miles a year to just 5,000 a year based mostly on where I choose to live.
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Perhaps tangential but this GoTriangle rideshare program looks new:
https://gotriangle.org/rideshare
On March 28, 2018, GoTriangle’s Board of Trustees authorized contracting with Enterprise to manage our vanpool program. Enterprise’s expertise in fleet management, award-winning customer service, and existing relationships with employers throughout the region are the perfect combination to grow GoTriangle’s vanpool program.
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Whenever I go Out of town, I take the 100 to RDU , why spend money on a uber/lyft. They should extend their service to late evenings for people that land at RDU at later times, then catch a Uber if they need to.
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I use it mainly to get to the RDU car rental area since I take weekend trips and RDU is the only place in Raleigh that offers very early morning car rental pick-ups and extended hours on the weekends. An almost 24 hour, 7 day a week car rental center in DTR would be nice to have in the future. I won’t miss DTR Enterprise.
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would make it even Better if it was located at RUS…but I’m just dreaming. 
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You should make a comment that RUSbus should have rental cars. I think it would be useful.
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Or even Zipcar…I sometimes use it when I really need to get around a bit faster, especially on weekends when Buses run every hour.
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A well stocked reasonably priced rent a car agency would be a good amenity to have close to Raleigh’s main train station. It is a better use of parking deck space than … well, parking … because it provides an amenity for downtown residents in addition to serving people arriving to the city by train. Having rental cars close at hand is one great way to make it easier for people to live car free.
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had comment at RUS post. it should make it easy for folks to rent a car at RUS instead of walking to the enterprise lot to rent one, just an idea,
Enterprise is also closing eventually so it would either need to relocate or close completely.
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Pipe Dream?
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It’s cool to hear that Virgin Hyperloop/AECOM is taking the idea seriously. …but beyond that, it just seems like a whole lot of hype/fluff and not a lot of content.
The numbers and figures they showed were to pitch the idea of hyperloops itself, but not so much for hyperloop specifically in the Triangle. How does it impact existing rights-of-way? How does it stack up against (or play well with) other transit initiatives that are being planned? What engineering limits or policy restrictions (terrain, floods, traffic disruption, NIMBY landowners, emergency evacuations) could become deal-breakers?
This was a cool glorified ad for the hyperloop project, but I was disappointed that they didn’t talk about any of those issues specific to our region.
Ya might as well read from the source and analyze it yourself.
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