Greyhound Won’t Be Part of Downtown Raleigh’s RUS Bus Station When It Opens Next Year

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Good morning, readers.

Over a decade ago, local leaders in Raleigh came up with a simple plan to make traveling to, from, and around the city on public transportation much easier.

They envisioned a “multimodal” transit hub—a downtown focal point where Amtrak, commuter rail, and local and regional bus routes would all converge. It would make connections faster and more convenient, and catalyze economic development in the surrounding Warehouse District. 

In the words of former mayor Nancy McFarlane, it would be “a front door to the city.”

That vision was partially realized in 2018 with the completion of Raleigh Union Station, the new and expanded train station. And in August 2025, the Raleigh Union Station bus facility, or RUS Bus, is slated to open next door. But while RUS Bus will serve a multitude of GoTriangle and GoRaleigh bus routes—ten in total, according to a GroTriangle spokesman—one key piece of the original plan will be absent: regional Greyhound buses.

Raleigh’s Greyhound terminal is currently located at 2210 Capital Boulevard, more than three miles outside the city center. If Union Station is the front door to the city, this is the back door, where people who can’t afford to fly, train, or drive into Raleigh arrive by bus and are greeted by an inhospitable landscape of strip malls, concrete, and highway.

Check out the full story about RUS Bus and Greyhound, and have a good weekend. 

—Chloe

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