Bummer: Raleigh Fails Again To Find Someone To Build Bus Rapid Transit

April 29, 2025 – 3:00 pm

The BRT for Raleigh goes all the way back to 2016, when the voters approved a plan. It’s almost 10 years later and

When planning to build something, isn’t it a good idea to have someone to actually build it before announcing you’re going to build it?

Raleigh is once again trying to find contractors to build North Carolina’s first bus rapid transit line. This time the city is trying a different strategy, one that will further delay the project.

Last year, the city twice sought bids from construction companies to build the New Bern Avenue BRT line, which will run 5.4 miles between downtown and a planned park-and-ride lot off New Hope Road. The first time, no one bid. The second attempt yielded one bid that was more than $41 million higher than the city’s estimates and was rejected.

The rest is behind a hard paywall, but, the result is no bids. Zero. No one wants to build it. Here were are 9 years later and not one project has even started. Is there a need for this on New Bern? How many people will actually ride it? Is it taking people where they want to go? Is this more about forcing the peasants out of their cars and onto buses, like we’ve seen in so many leftist cities (while the Elites travel in fossil fueled large SUVs)?

BTW, I’m reserving judgement on this, until we have more info

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7 Responses to “Bummer: Raleigh Fails Again To Find Someone To Build Bus Rapid Transit”

  1. ST says:
    April 29, 2025 at 4:32 pm

    Live Stream – President Trump Holds a Rally Celebrating his First 100 Days in Warren, MI – 4/29/25

    https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/04/live-stream-president-trump-holds-rally.html

  2. Professor Hale says:
    April 29, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    As is almost always the case, massive public projects overestimate the benefits and underestimate the cost. This is because politicians know that voters would likely reject projects if the cost were too high and all the benefits went to insiders (see publicly funded sports arenas).

  3. Aliassmithsmith says:
    April 30, 2025 at 7:07 am

    Many sources are now attributing the grid failing in Spain because of a cyber attack. The destabilization of governments has long been a tactic of the right-wing

    • Jeffery Keene of St. Louis says:
      April 30, 2025 at 8:18 am

      Yeah left wingers have never destabilized governments as a tactic.LOL The left wing generally starts sendingthem to death camps or shooting them down in the streets.

      • Elwood P. Dowd says:
        April 30, 2025 at 8:43 am

        Porter Good of Raleigh and his labial “ladyfriends”, The Lil Pissant of Bumfuct and LGB of Palm Beach blame liberals for every lil thang!

        • Elwood P. Dowd says:
          April 30, 2025 at 8:44 am

          Oops, we meant “labile”, not “labial”, although “labial” is also accurate.

  4. Elwood P. Dowd says:
    April 30, 2025 at 7:22 am

    Two pro-Russian cyber “hacktivist” groups, Dark Storm Team and NoName057, have claimed responsibility for the major power outage that hit Spain and Portugal on Monday.

    The “The Dark Storm” group took to X to claim joint responsibility for the major blackout that hit Spain and Portugal: “Today [Monday], we and the NoName057 team succeeded in cutting off the electricity in some NATO countries.” They also posted a cryptic photo with a list of Portuguese ministries’ URLs.

    That said, Russians lie almost as much as MAGAts.

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