GoDurham Transit Plan-Preferred Alternative
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.
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
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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
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 4 - No Changes Recommended
Route 7 - No Changes Recommended
Route 8 - No Change Recommended
Route 20 - No Changes Recommended