{"id":4644,"date":"2026-07-15T04:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:34:05","slug":"with-shorter-waits-ridership-on-goraleighs-busiest-bus-route-tops-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4644","title":{"rendered":"With shorter waits, ridership on GoRaleigh\u2019s busiest bus route tops 1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\">Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GoRaleigh\u2019s busiest bus route carried more than 1 million passengers in the fiscal year that just ended, the first time that\u2019s ever happened in the transit system\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4642\">Scholarship pulled, Woodhouse resigns and Mama Kelce visits Raleigh: Tuesday&#8217;s top stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goraleigh.org\/maps-schedules\/goraleigh\/1\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">GoRaleigh Route 1<\/a> follows Capital Boulevard from downtown north nine miles to Triangle Town Center and back again. It\u2019s a busy corridor, lined with shopping centers, businesses, apartment complexes and residential neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/goraleigh.org\/\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">GoRaleigh<\/a> officials say what made a big difference in the fiscal year that ended June 30 is how often the bus runs.<\/p>\n<p>Since last October, a Route 1 bus leaves GoRaleigh station every 10 minutes on weekdays. That\u2019s down from every 15 minutes previously and is frequent enough that people never have to wait long for a bus.<\/p>\n<p>GoRaleigh hasn\u2019t done any recent surveys, but the shorter wait times seem to have enticed more people to ride, said David Walker, the city\u2019s transportation manager. Monthly ridership on Route 1 jumped 15.5% in October, to 87,581, and continued to climb, topping 94,000 in May and June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we reduced it to 10 [minutes], it just really took off,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>Walker said he checked with transit agencies in Chapel Hill, Durham and Charlotte and is confident that GoRaleigh\u2019s Route 1 has the highest ridership of any bus route in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4641\">Live cockroaches, Durham restaurant employee not using soap: latest inspections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GoRaleigh has seen similar improvements in business when it increases frequencies on other routes. After <a href=\"https:\/\/goraleigh.org\/maps-schedules\/goraleigh\/2\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">Route 2, Falls of Neuse<\/a>, went from 30 minutes between buses to 15 this spring, ridership jumped 30%. And the number of people riding <a href=\"https:\/\/goraleigh.org\/maps-schedules\/goraleigh\/17\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">Route 17, Rock Quarry Road<\/a>, spiked 44% when the bus began coming every 30 minutes instead of every hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis all syncs up with what we have seen in all of our high-frequency services, showing that with improved frequencies, ridership will come,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>The Capital Boulevard route operates 19 hours a day on weekdays and 18 hours on weekends, when buses come every 15 minutes. When it reduced wait times to 10 minutes, the city also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/article312083441.html\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">began using its first 60-foot articulated buses on Route 1<\/a>. They seat about the same number of people as a typical 40-foot bus but hold more because of additional standing room.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, more than 7.8 million riders took GoRaleigh in the year ending June 30, up about 2.9% from a year earlier. Ridership is up 45% since 2019, the last full year before the COVID-19 pandemic when GoRaleigh and transit agencies nationwide saw a big drop in business.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4640\">The Kelce family matriarch dined at North Hills restaurant with her entourage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Route 1 bus leaves downtown GoRaleigh station every 10 minutes and runs up Capital Boulevard to Triangle Town Center. 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