Triangle Transit Bus History Part 3

 

Rebranding 

In the Spring of 2015, Triangle Transit, DATA, and CAT were rebranded as Go Triangle, Go Durham, and Go Raleigh respectively.

Brief Routes

• JCX served a park & ride lot off NC 42. Service started in early 2014

• CLX: Clayton Town Center and White Oak Shopping Center in Garner to downtown. Service started in January 2015

• CTX: Wellington Park Shopping Center in Cary to N.C. State and downtown. Service started in January 2015. Eliminated in November 2015

• 300X: Cary Town Hall to N.C. State and downtown Raleigh. Service started in January 2015. Eliminated in August 2015

• Robertson Scholar Express was a special bus route operates between the campuses of Duke and UNC. Eliminated in early 2020.

• RDU Airport Shuttle. This is a temporary route during the COVID era. Route 100 is temporarily skipping the airport during the day Mondays thru Saturdays. Route 105 is temporarily suspended as well.        

The first three routes were all implemented by the Fortify 40/440 project that widened the Raleigh Beltline's southern portion. The project was completed in late 2017 and these routes were eliminated thereafter.

More Express Services

• ODX serves Durham, Hillsborough, Efland, and Mebane and connects to Piedmont Authority for Regional Transit at the Mebane Park & Ride Lot.
• FRX: Hilltop Crossings in Fuquay-Varina and South Hills in Cary to downtown. Service started in January 2015

Triangle Transit Bus History Part 2

2010
Routes 105, 402, 403, 412 & 413 were split up into seven routes—all day Core routes and peak hour only routes. There was only one RTP-Durham route as the 402/403 segments were dropped due to low ridership.
Raleigh: Core Route 100 stops at RDU, absorbing Shuttle 747. New Route 105 stops at District Drive Park & Ride.
Durham-Chapel Hill: Core Route 400 serves portions of Routes 412/413 while new Route 405 serves 402/403 portions.
Durham: Core Route 700.
Chapel Hill: Core Route 800 serves portions of 412/413 while new route 805 serves 402/403 segment.

These other changes also took place in August 2010:
• Express routes were relabeled as letters (CRX and DRX respectively) and combined. The DRX route stops at the Durham Area Transit Authority station in both directions
• Wake Forest and Knightdale Expresses had their letters changed as well (from WFX and KDX to WRX and KRX respectively)
• Evening and Saturday service were replaced by Core Routes

TTA shuttles have served the Research Triangle Park area from the company’s inception. Here’s a running of these routes—then and now:
Airport Shuttle
• Served Innovation Drive
• Relabeled Airport Shuttle 747 when the agency began numbering shuttles in 2003
• Replaced by Core Route 100 in 2010

Factory Shops Shuttle
• Served southeastern RTP and Morrisville
• Extended to RDU in 2003 and relabeled Airport Shuttle 43
• Eventually replaced by Routes 105 and 301

South Shuttle
• Served southern RTP
• Renamed Shuttle 45, which was discontinued in 2009
• Southernmost portions replaced by Routes 302, 310 & 311 and Shuttle 49

East Shuttle
• Eastern RTP area is served by Shuttles 42, 46 & 47
• Shuttle 48 (Northeast RTP) was introduced in 2005, replaced by Route 248 in 2006. Route 248 was extended to serve the Brier Creek area during peak hours. At all other times, Airport Shuttle 747 went to Brier Creek
• Shuttle 48 was reintroduced in 2007 when Route 248 was discontinued due to low ridership
• In 2008, Shuttle 48 was combined with Shuttle 46

North Shuttle
• Was covered by Shuttle 45 on a demand response basis
• Currently covered by Shuttle 47