For the first time in 20 years, people can catch a Greyhound bus in Chapel Hill.
As of Aug. 1, Greyhound now stops four times a day on a route that runs between Raleigh and Asheville, with stops in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Statesville and Hickory. The buses stop at Chapel Hill’s Eubanks Road park-and-ride lot, just off Interstate 40, where riders can take a Chapel Hill Transit bus into town.
The service is partly subsidized by the N.C. Department of Transportation, using a mix of federal and state money. NCDOT underwrites 11 intercity bus routes statewide serving places that companies like Greyhound don’t find profitable, such as Siler City, Sanford, Smithfield and Goldsboro…