GoDurham Transit Plan-Preferred Alternative

GoDurham is seeking input on a short-range transit plan that will guide how the GoDurham transit improves service over the next several years to better serve existing and potential riders, new developments, and essential services in our community. After hearing from Durham residents through public meetings, conversations about the system, and an online survey, the GoDurham service planning team focused on:

• Simplifying routes,

• Improving frequency of service, and

• Providing more direct service to popular destinations.

Three scenarios were developed to help visualize ways to improve the system and presented to the public for feedback. Based on that feedback, a Preferred Alternative was developed, combining of the most popular parts of each scenario into an implementable service plan.

This Preferred Alternative is being presented to the public as a proposal. Your input will help planners finalize service improvements and inform where changes still need to be made. Please read through the details of the system changes as well as individual route changes that are being proposed as part of the Preferred Alternative; staff wants to hear from you!

Durham Preferred Alternative Highlights

The highlights of the cost-constrained Transit Vision include:

Extended High Frequency Service Network – New destinations with service every 15 minutes: Streets at Southpoint, Duke/VA Hospital, and E. Main Street (to Alston Ave)
Simplified Service – Fewer route variations and deviations
Expanded Sunday and Weekday Evening Service – Destinations with service improved to service every 30 minutes: The Village, Duke/VA Hospital, and E. Main Street (to Alston Ave)
More Direct Service to Major Destinations
- Connecting East Durham neighborhoods to RTP, Streets at Southpoint, and Briar Creek
On-Demand Zones
- On-Demand Zones incentivize the use of on-demand services, which can be agency-operated or partnerships with private providers such as Uber, Lyft, or taxis. Trips within or between zones are subsidized.
- Potential zones include low-density areas throughout the edges of the service area
Additional operating resources will be necessary to implement these improvements.

Benefits of the Preferred Alternative include:
9.3 more miles of very frequent service (every 15 minute or more all day)
12,700 more residents and jobs within a quarter mile of very frequent service
16,000 more residents and jobs within a quarter mile of service that operates every 30 minutes or better

Preferred Alternative

Do you support the Preferred Alternative?

Yes

Not Sure

Closed to responses

Route by Route Descriptions

This section allows you to view route-level changes proposed in Scenario 1 and Scenario 2. Please click on the route number you are interested in viewing.

Route 1

Route 2

Route 3

Route 4 - No Changes Recommended

Route 5

Route 6

Route 7 - No Changes Recommended

Route 8 - No Change Recommended