By Bruce Siceloff, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Feb. 5--RALEIGH -- A three-county citizens advisory group agreed Monday to push for an ambitious transit expansion that would increase local and regional bus service and spend $2 billion to launch trains across the Triangle by 2020.

By Bruce Siceloff, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jan. 29--Carol Mitchell can't believe she once had qualms about trading her spot in the parking deck for a seat on the express bus.

By Bruce Siceloff, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jan. 27--The trains were supposed to be rolling by now. Remember? December 2007 was the scheduled launch date for a 28-mile rail transit link between Durham and Raleigh.

By Bruce Siceloff, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jan. 12--RALEIGH -- The Triangle can afford to expand bus service and build new rail projects if local leaders make a "Charlotte level of effort," the head of a regional transit agency said Friday.

By Bruce Siceloff, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jan. 10--Triangle residents will need good local streetcars, trains and express buses before they need a proposed regional rail link between Durham, Research Triangle Park and Raleigh.