It certainly doesn’t look like a bus lane but if you squint, you can see the future dedicated lane along the southern side of New Bern being worked on. Actually, it’s all pipe work at the moment as workers replace an old waterline. It’s not transit but it makes sense to get that done so we can have stable road space for a high-frequency bus line in the near future.
The city will definitely be putting out a lot of construction updates, including video, seen below in this one off their YouTube channel.
On a walk from Swain toward East Street and into downtown, I snapped some photos showing the coned-off right-lane. Not too exciting to be honest but progress is being made. These are old streets so I imagine there is some very old infrastructure underneath it. That’s probably how it goes with transit-related infrastructure. When you enhance it because your city is growing, it’s happening inside the city, not in new-growth areas. Therefore, transit projects probably get a lot of non-transit things attached to them.
