Durham County Transit Plan

About the Program

Category: Transportation (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

The Durham County Transit Plan will establish a vision and action plan for transit services like buses, Go Durham, Go Triangle access service, and passenger train service. This plan will guide how the half-cent sales tax funds are spent on things like bus service or even new bus purchases and new bus stops. The transit plan identifies projects, what they will cost and when they will start. The previous transit plan, first adopted in 2011 and updated in 2017, allocated a large portion of sales tax funds to the Durham Orange Light Rail Project. With the discontinuation of the Durham Orange Light Rail Project in 2019, the priorities of our area shifted. As a result, the Durham and County Transit Plan update will focus on identifying new transit projects to be funded and which projects from the previous plan should continue. Since the transit tax was approved in 2011, a lot of work has already been done to improve the transit service in Durham. In addition to the projects that will be included in this latest plan update, there are already service and infrastructure improvements that will either continue to be funded with transit sales tax funds or will begin to be funded in 2021. Recently several projects through go triangle and Durham’s Better Bus project have been committed and are already underway. These include projects like bus transit corridors that help buses move faster along busy roads like Fayetteville Street and Holloway Street. Improvements to some of the busiest transfer centers that serve multiple routes like the Village and South Point and better bus stops that will add amenities to bus stops in Durham.