GoDurham
transit district in Durham, North Carolina, United States
GoDurham, formerly Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA), is the public transit system serving Durham, North Carolina. It is currently operated by RATP Dev, managed by GoTriangle, and funded by the City of Durham. It was renamed under the consolidated GoTransit branding scheme for the Research Triangle region. In 2025, the system had a ridership of 6,741,500, or about 19,200 per weekday as of the second quarter of 2026.
History
Early years
The City of Durham assumed the operation of the local Duke Power bus system in January 1991, naming it Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA).
1891–1902 – Durham Street Railway Co.
1902–1913 – Durham Traction Co.
1913–1921 – Durham Traction Co. (Cities Service Co.)
1921–1943 – Durham Public Service Co. (Cities Service Co.)
1930 – streetcars discontinued
After 1943 – Duke Power Company
2000s & 2010s
DATA Upgrades
To benefit riders and to replace aging equipment, DATA purchased 31 new Gillig Low Floors in 2002.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “GoDurham” is transit district in Durham, North Carolina, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through GoDurham, transit and district, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “transit district in Durham, North Carolina, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5316462. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025, 2026, 1991 and 1891.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “GoDurham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.