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1988 - Voters pass referendum authorizing property tax to support public transit; 1990 - City of Greensboro takes over transit services from Duke Power; 1991 - Greensboro City Council creates Greensboro Transit Authority; fare is 50 cents per trip; 1992 - GTA carries one millionth rider; launches Career Express
Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) provides inter-city and regional public transportation for the Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, NC combined statistical area, known as the Piedmont Triad area. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 377,200, or about 1,400 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
J. Douglas Galyon Depot, [1] also known as Greensboro station, is an intermodal transit facility in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Located at 236 East Washington Street in downtown Greensboro, it serves Amtrak passenger rail and is the city's main hub for local and intercity buses .
Amtrak operates several passenger rail lines in North Carolina. Each train is daily except the Piedmont which is twice-daily.. The Carolinian between New York and Charlotte serves Rocky Mount, Wilson, Selma-Smithfield, Raleigh, State Fair (conditional), Cary, Durham, Hillsborough (future), Burlington, Greensboro, High Point, Lexington (conditional), Salisbury, Kannapolis, and Charlotte.
GoTransit is a joint branding of municipal and regional bus systems adopted in 2015 for the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.The original participating systems are GoTriangle, formerly Triangle Transit; GoRaleigh, formerly Capital Area Transit (CAT); and GoDurham, formerly Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA).
Seasonally, it also serves the North Carolina State Fair and Lexington Barbecue Festival. [12] [13] [14] North Carolina subsidizes the train from Charlotte to the Virginia border. It is augmented by three Amtrak Thruway routes, two connecting Wilson to large swaths of eastern North Carolina [15] and one connecting Winston-Salem and High Point.
The Carolinian is a daily Amtrak passenger train that runs between New York City and Charlotte, North Carolina, with major stops in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Cary, Durham, and Greensboro. The 704-mile (1,133 km) service is the longest state-supported route in the Amtrak system.
High Point Transit System is the operator of public transportation in the High Point, North Carolina area. It complements three other local and one regional bus service in the Piedmont Triad . Twelve routes travel almost solely within the city limits.