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Rush-hour delays on Charlotte’s blue line
I’m not going to touch the old adage about the guy who made trains run on time, especially since the Charlotte Area Transit Authority says Blue Line trains still run…
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Surprise–Charlotte council’s Silver Line vote depends on sales tax hike outcome
The Charlotte City Council has has delayed a vote on a $50 million contract to begin preliminary work on a new light rail line until results from the proposed arts-and-parks…
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Charlotte’s $400m mother of all transit-oriented development
Charlotte Area Transit Authority has selected two firms “to begin discussions over the redevelopment of the Charlotte Transportation Center, potentially a nearly $400 million project.” More details here. Note this…
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Charlotte’s plan to lure bus riders back
For starters, here’s the problem the Charlotte Area Transit System faces: CATS is contending with the same nationwide decline in ridership that’s hit transit systems from the New York City…
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Charlotte’s Blue Line extension numbers are out….
The first full month ridership numbers are out for Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line extension are out, and the result is….numbers are down: The $1.1 billion Lynx Blue Line Extension opened…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Tariffs’ impact on American businesses
Surprise, surprise! Bigger businesses would have an easier time than their smaller competitors taking the economic hit from new tariffs. Jack Hough offers details at Barron’s. Campbell Soup got some…
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What you really need to know about Charlotte’s light rail extension….
Number of stations, park and ride lots, billing UNCC students $25 per semester for an “All-Access Transit Pass”–all that. But here’s what you really need to know: Ten years ago,…
Transportation
Another sales tax hike for CATS?
That really is the underlying issue in this UPoR story describing the transit agency’s attempts to come up with a plan for a light rail line from Uptown Charlotte to…
Liberty
Let the users pay
I was glad to see the headline “CATS proposes fare hikes to cover expected operating costs” as I perused local news on the Charlotte Observer’s site this morning. There are…
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CATS cost overrun of the moment
Per the UPoR: Problems with a contractor will force the Charlotte Area Transit System to spend an additional $950,000 to upgrade capacity on the light-rail line. In April 2014, the…
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CATS latest epic fail
So what’s about the most basic information that a transit system could possibly be interested in? Ridership. And what is it that CATS is now saying that it might not…
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CATS ridership falls
By 4.5 percent through July as compared to the first seven months of 2015 on the light rail line with bus ridership also down. CATS officials blame failing gasoline prices…