Comments for “Central Durham Bus Rapid Transit Interactive Map”
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Connect our to Target & Li Ming’s!
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Long Meadow Park would be a great location for a stop especially with the new bonds that will be improving it and connecting it to East End Park. Also there are baseball fields right next door. I think Liberty Street as a whole would be a great corridor since the Main Library is located on Liberty too.
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This area is a great reason to provide late-night transit service. A lot of bars, restaurants, and new housing. A connection to downtown and West Durham could be great for connecting the city.
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A faster transit connection between downtown and 9th St would be a great draw.
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These parks really should be incorporated into the transit line. It would be a great endpoint for the line
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With all of the new housing around the Mineral Springs/Sherron Rd, it would be good to have a park and ride area around here to be able to go downtown. However, I worry about safety in this area--lots of burglaries, larcenies, robberies, car thefts, and assaults around the N Miami/Holloway area. There are 100+ incidents in about a 5 block radius since the beginning of the year.
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use all the extra, unused space around the freeway for BRT tracks
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There's a Reddit thread about this project, and some people are asking for park-and-rides that could serve this BRT line. Perhaps one could go here?
https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/1m6k8bk/durham_might_finally_get_real_transit/
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Cocoa Cinnamon, Locopop, and other great hole-in-the-wall local businesses are around here!
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The idea for regional rail for the Triangle is just on hold - and we haven't given up on it for good, right? If so, I think there should be some thought put into how a train station can be seamlessly connected to future BRT platforms, and commuters can easily transfer to get to where they need.
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I'm looking forward to the Durham Rail Trail happening here!
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They keep saying that American Tobacco will expand, and have farmers markets etc. here. That would be another nice draw for BRT riders - if that ever happens.
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I saw a cyclist almost get hit by a car here - only for the car's driver to stop and assault the cyclist, and for another driver to victim-blame that cyclist afterwards. Can BRT infrastructure be designed to make things like less likely to happen?
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I've seen a lot of traffic get backed up here, as well as cars almost running into each other - especially as a downstream effect of people turning in and out of Harris Teeter. This would make me use BRT for shopping - if only there was a way for me to carry around 2 weeks of groceries, without a car.
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There's almost always a sea of broken glass on the sidewalks here because Shooters is nearby. This definitely doesn't make it feel safer to walk around here...
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The northern sidewalk along Main St. is not directly connected by crosswalks here, and the lights take a very long time to change. This makes a lot of people impatient to the point that they jaywalk across Watts and Morgan, making it a pretty dangerous place to walk. I worry that a BRT station nearby would make that worse, unless something is done about that.
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This railroad crossing has always felt like an intimidating psychological wall between two halves of downtown, especially when you go out at night.
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American Tobacco, the Bulls stadium, and DPAC are all obviously, incredibly important parts of downtown Durham! If you can't get people who go there to be excited about BRT, then you're doing something wrong.
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How awkward or time-consuming will it be for BRT to stop and turn around here? This doesn't look very easy, and I hope it doesn't affect on-time performance too badly.
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Golden Belt has a lot of great dining and nightlife things happening. I hope people don't miss that just because it's a few blocks away from where BRT is supposed to run.
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Lots of new businesses, apartments, and nightlife attractions are here! If BRT doesn't go here, it should at least be convenient for people to transfer onto local buses that do.
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I've wanted to hold more events around the main library, but I've got a lot of pushback from potential attendees because they feel unsafe from being harassed by unhoused people sitting around. Even if that's not causing actually dangerous situations, I worry that this kind of perception problem could limit people's acceptance of BRT.
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Durham Central Park and the Farmer's Market has been a great draw for things to do every weekend! This area shows of a lot of local businesses, tight-knit communities, creative artwork, and history of entrepreneurship and creativity. The culture here seems like the exact sort of thing that BRT should aim to replicate and expand everywhere in Durham.
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The Co-Op Market, Isaac's Bagels, Grub, the Emily K center, historic affordable housing, and lots of other beloved resources are here. This makes this neighborhood into a cute, artsy, and vibrant edge of downtown. I hope BRT can strengthen this community!
It would be a shame if market forces and gentrification caused by BRT prices them out of existence, and the city did nothing to combat that...
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In Chapel Hill, UNC students live, work, and ride buses alongside Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents - and it seriously adds to how often buses are used, as well as how much people care about it.
But Duke's main campus doesn't feel that way at all. If anything, it seems disconnected from the rest of Durham - and the fact that not a lot of GoDurham buses serve it doesn't help with that perception. (the hospital doesn't count since it's not a part of the proper campus.) Will this new BRT line stick to that constraint, or try to fight against that tide?