Cary Requests Public Comment on FY 2026 Wake Transit Work Plan

Cary published a public notice on Feb. 20, 2026, asking residents to review and comment on the recommended FY 2026 Wake Transit Work Plan, which proposes $186.55 million in operating and capital investments for Wake County transit. The plan’s budget breaks down to $64.1 million for operations and $122.45 million for capital, figures listed on the PublicInput project page for the recommended FY 2026 Work Plan.

The PublicInput page that hosts the recommended plan explicitly encouraged public feedback: “About $186.55 million in transit operating and capital investments has been proposed in the recommended FY 2026 Wake Transit Work Plan, now available for review at GoForwardNC.org. The public review and comment period is open May 1 - May 15, 2025. Let us know what you think.” That May 1–15, 2025 comment window is the designated period tied to the recommended FY 2026 document on PublicInput.

Cary-specific line items in the FY 2026 program visible on GoForwardNC and plan excerpts include the New GoCary Route 11 - East Cary (Project ID TO005-CH) with a FY 2026 programmed cost of $1,134,530 and a service span of 6am - 10pm Monday - Saturday and 7am - 9pm Sunday. Town of Cary bus stop improvements (Project ID TC002-V) show FY 2026 programmed cost of $208,000. GoCary Security Services (TO005-CK) also appears in the operating tables, with FY 2025 and FY 2026 columned amounts shown in plan extracts.

The operations budget lists agency-level allocations and program highlights: $48.9 million for continuation of existing services covering Raleigh, Cary, Wake County, Wendell, Apex, Morrisville, and GoTriangle; $4.5 million for fare collection technology, continuation of GoPass low-income and youth discounts, and the Community Funding Area Program; and a partially quoted $1.8 million line for continued security and operations. Nmcdn table excerpts show agency subtotals including Raleigh $37,256,704; GoTriangle $8,784,457; Cary $5,441,213; GoWake Access $872,705; plan administration GoTriangle $2,514,356; CAMPO $872,265; and reserves such as a Plan Administration reserve $479,723, Bus Operations reserve $948,458, and a Community Funding Area reserve $331,135. The Nmcdn extract also lists Total Expenditures $64,129,038 and the table line “Revenues over Expenditures -$”.

Capital highlights in the recommended plan include $55.8 million programmed for City of Raleigh Bus Rapid Transit projects (Wake BRT Western Corridor, Triangle Town Corridor, Midtown Corridor), $39.6 million for bus infrastructure including transfer points, transit centers and park-and-ride lots, and roughly $26 million budgeted for bus acquisitions. Project-level capital items cited in plan excerpts include the City of Raleigh’s new GoRaleigh / GoWake Access Paratransit Operations & Maintenance Facility sized to accommodate 100 vehicles, and Orange County’s Triangle Mobility Hub Phase II request with an estimated Jul-25 start and Jul-26 completion and a base year entry of $35,000 in the Orange County work plan excerpt.

Cary’s notice points readers to the new Wake Transit outreach platform and to local contacts. GoCary posted that “A new Wake Transit public outreach web platform at WakeTransit.org was launched this month! On the Public Notices page, you will find links to active and upcoming engagement activities. Follow each to review planning activities and weigh in on various projects related to Wake Transit Plan implementation.” GoCary materials also note that “Three engagement efforts kicked off on September 5th:” including the Draft 2035 Wake Transit Plan (materials viewable through October 5, 2025) and a Draft Operations Security Funding Policy (available for review through September 21, 2025). Cary’s customer-service contacts for transit are Fixed Route (919) 485-RIDE (7433), Door to Door (919) 481-2020, and BetterTransit@GoCary.org, and Wake Transit inquiries may be sent to waketransit@campo-nc.us.

The Town’s Feb. 20 notice anchors Cary in the countywide process that produced the $186.55 million recommended program and highlights locally programmed services such as Route 11 and bus stop improvements; those decisions and the plan’s reserve and agency allocations will determine whether service expansions, security funding, and capital projects are funded as Wake Transit moves from planning into implementation.