Transportation
Transportation in Wake County includes many local and state options such as state and federal highways, local bus transit systems, and international air travel from RDU.
Choose from these topics to learn more about transportation in Wake County:
PODCAST: Listen to Wake County Live radio show with County Manager David Cooke and Triangle Transit General Manager David King discussing transit.
Routes from southwest Wake County and northern Harnett Counties to Cary, Raleigh, and RTP consistently are cited among the most congested commuter routes in the Triangle. The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has commissioned a study to identify a sustainable transportation strategy for the area. For more information, see
http://www.southwestareastudy.com/
Triangle Transit, in collaboration with Wake County, local municipalities, regional planning organizations, state and federal agencies and the public, continues to evaluate new and improved mass transit services with the goal of creating a regional rail transit system and significant expansion of the bus-way network to address the region’s transportation needs.
For more information, see
http://www.ourtransitfuture.com/.
Information about the
Southeast High Speed Rail, Richmond, Va., to Raleigh, N.C., Passenger Rail Project can be found at
http://www.sehsr.org/.
