By NICOLE CARTRETTE
New daily intercity bus service is coming
to Whiteville.
Horizon Coach Lines plans to begin offering
bus service via the Queen City-Coastal
Connector here beginning July 1.
The federally subsidized route administered
by funds funneled through the state will
connect several rural areas of Southeastern
North Carolina to metropolitan areas such as
Charlotte and Wilmington.
The Wilmington-Charlotte route will pick
up passengers at the Columbus County Transportation
office on Legion Drive in Whiteville
at 9 a.m. The route will have stops in Lumberton
(9:45 a.m.), Laurinburg, Rockingham,
Wadesboro and Monroe before arriving in
Charlotte at 2 p.m.
The Charlotte-Wilmington route begins
with bus departure at 5 p.m. in Charlotte
and will have stops in Monroe, Wadesboro,
Rockingham, Laurinburg, Fayetteville and
Lumberton before arriving in Whiteville at 10
p.m. nightly. Those traveling from Whiteville
to Wilmington will arrive in Wilmington at
10:45 p.m.
In 2009, the N.C. Department of Transportation
via collaboration with N.C. State University
studied bus routes across the state in an
effort to “really connect rural and urban areas
in North Carolina, NCDOT spokesperson Jennifer
Garifo said.
The proposed route is an extension of the
Charlotte-Fayetteville route, Garifo said. “It’s
a great thing,” she said.
“It is the completion of the missing piece,”
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