With dreams of commuter or light rail in the Triangle deferred, local governments are turning to a far cheaper and easier form of mass transit that uses buses.
Durham County is the latest to consider bus rapid transit. The county’s plans get underway this fall with an online survey and a series of public workshops to determine how and where people might use BRT.
The effort is a response to what the county heard as it developed the 2023 Durham Transit Plan, which guides how revenue from the county’s half-cent sales tax for transit should be spent…