Brier Creek and Towne North Open to Buses

In a move inspired by pity and PR, two of four malls previously restricting bus access have reached an agreement with the City on allowing bus access. Brier Creek and Towne North (in Ye Olde Raleighe) have agreed to allow buses to make stops on their property. Towne North had previously closed their bus stop and Brier Creek is opening up for the first time. If you missed it we covered this injustice a few weeks ago.

The other two malls will not be regaining bus access. Aparently Bent Tree doesn’t serve anyone interested in public transit and Brennan Station is going to let folk cross the street from the Towne North, knight costumes and all.

butcept07/24 07:07 PM

Great news!! I have been keeping tabs on this as well. Don’t know about the rest of you all, but I think it’s a worthy cause to start addressing the lack of shelters and/or benches at many of our stops.

David07/24 08:02 PM

Agreed, public transit needs to be as comfortable as possible, to promote its use. To add injury to insult, there is no AC on the city buses.

Barden07/25 09:08 AM

I totally agree. Without those amenities, how can you expect people to make use of public transit?

Michael07/25 10:09 AM

True its great news they have come to agreement on this. However, the initial problem harkens to a basic failure in city planning. Why should buses have to leave the city streets in order to drop passengers in a convenient spot? If the shops in these centers were required to front the street or were built with the pedestrian in mind we would not be having this discussion. Its high time the city banned strip malls altogether and adopted regulations that would allow them to be converted into more pedestrian oriented facilities. “North Hills-like” development is probably the way to go, with the exception that the “streets” within the North Hills development should be required to be turned over to the city or state after they are built (in order to keep the “streets” a public domain where anyone who wishes to can hang out). This is not intended to endorse the architecture of North Hills, John Kane, or the chain franchises that occupy the center, but the pedestrain-friendly aspect of the development.

David07/25 01:15 PM

Well said Michael. I think we all enjoy spending time in a North Hills type environment as opposed to some of the aging scabs across north Raleigh. My gripes with it, lie in the way they integrate the malls with the community and traffic around them- for some reason they are always so much easier to enter than to leave.

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David Tuesday, July 24, 2007