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Triangle Transit will start direct bus service from downtown Raleigh to Raleigh-Durham International Airport in August.
The RDU bus service will be offered Monday through Saturday (day corrected 5/28/10) from Moore Square and N.C. State University to RDU, then continue to the regional transit center on Slater Road near Research Triangle Park. The buses will run every 30 minutes during the day, and hourly in the evening and on Saturday.
The Raleigh-RDU service was approved Wednesday by Triangle Transit trustees along with other schedule and route changes that will take effect Aug. 16. The three-county agency is simplifying its schedule with a plan to replace several routes based in Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh with fewer routes.
A second Raleigh route will run from downtown to the regional transit center via the District Drive park-and-ride lot in West Raleigh.
In Durham, a new “core service” route will run from Durham Station to the regional transit center via Durham Tech and N.C. Central University. Schedule changes also are planned on the U.S. 15-501 corridor between Chapel Hill and Durham.
Chapel Hill’s new core route will run from downtown to the regional transit center via Southpoint. A second route will make the trip with stops at Woodcroft Parkway.
Details of these and other changes are available online at www.gotriangle.org or by phone at 485-7433.
Bruce Siceloff reports on traffic and transportation. A News & Observer reporter and editor since 1976, he took over the 
Comments
New route will run Monday through Saturday
Thu, 05/27/2010 - 21:04 — jdtallmadgeJust a correction to paragraph two to clarify that the route will be offered Monday through Saturday.
TTA should have
Thu, 05/27/2010 - 16:37 — jeromfitzdone this when the transit first came into operations. I might still would have a job if this was done in mid-90s. What a mess!! They also include a direct to RDU International from Durham and Chapel Hill. Apply a bus routes until about 12 midnight no later than 1:30 am.