The agency will operate GoDurham’s fleet of 53 vehicles with the addition of more than 60 new team members.
Charles E. Lattuca has been leading a $5.6 billion project to build a 16.2-mile light-rail transit system, expected to open in 2023.
The agency also advised GoTriangle to set the project’s budget to at least $2.5 billion to cover recent changes and rising construction costs.
The 17.7-mile light -rail system will have 18 stations between UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University in Durham.
Half of the Durham-Orange light rail’s cost — totaling over a billion dollars — is expected to come from the federal government.
Letter to GoTriangle cautioned that “the President’s Budget for FY 2018 proposes no funding for new projects, and thus GoTriangle acknowledges that it is undertaking additional work at its own risk, which may not receive Capital Investment Grants funding.”
Starting March 18, the NC By Train transit pass will be available at no additional charge to passengers on board the Piedmont and Carolinian trains in select cities.
Raising operational and safety issues, officials wrote a letter to GoTriangle saying they “cannot support” the rail line’s route as currently proposed, but still support the system.
The mobile app Rider makes transit more accessible with new Uber integration.
Triangle Transit and GoTriangle have been honored with three national transit awards for the video “#flipfortransit.” “#flipfortransit” was released in September 2012, after seeing four athletes that used free running and parkour on the North Carolina State University campus. They were filmed using public transit to get around Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh.
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