To thin the standing-room crowds that have been packing its popular intercity express buses, Triangle Transit is adding more weekday service for its Chapel Hill-Raleigh and Durham-Raleigh routes.
Starting Tuesday:
- Express 500 (Chapel Hill to Raleigh) for people who commute to Raleigh adds a trip leaving downtown Chapel Hill at 6:30 a.m., and add a return leaving downtown Raleigh at 5:30 p.m. Raleigh afternoon departure times for two other trips will be changed by a few minutes.
- Express 550 (Raleigh to Chapel Hill) for people who commute to Chapel Hill adds a downtown Raleigh departure at 7:30 a.m. and a downtown Chapel Hill return at 4:15 p.m.
- Express 600 (Durham to Raleigh) for people who commute to Raleigh adds a downtown Durham departure at 7:37 a.m. and a downtown Raleigh return at 4:45 p.m.
- Express 650 (Raleigh to Durham) for people who commute to Durham adds a downtown Raleigh departure at 6:37 a.m. and a return from Duke Hospital at 3:45 p.m.
Route and schedule details are available at http://triangletransit.org/bus/maps-and-schedules/or by phone at 485-7433.
Bruce Siceloff reports on traffic and transportation. A News & Observer reporter, editor and blogger since 1976, he took over the
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Mon, 09/15/2008 - 08:35 — Anonymous (not verified)The addition of the 7:30 departing downtown raleigh has done nothing for the standing room only crowd on the 7:17 bus at District Drive. You have to leave home a half hour just to get in line to avoid standing up. There should be a bus added at 6:45 that would get to District Drive at 7:00 to level out the crowd on the 7:17 bus.