The N.C. Department of Transportation has sent out postcards to over 50,000 property owners near the route of the proposed Garden Parkway in Gaston and Mecklenburg counties informing them that…
Carolina Journal’s Dan Way has a piece out to today on David Hartgen questioning the value of the Monroe Connector/Bypass. The article in full: RALEIGH — Taxpayers and motorists would…
A Winston-Salem Journal editorial praising legislative efforts to rein in state debt that lacks voter approval cited data from John Locke Foundation Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Sarah Curry‘s recent…
File this under the category of not surprising if you’ve been paying attending, which the UPoR apparently hasn’t been: The proposed high occupancy toll lanes on Interstate 77 from I-77…
So perhaps there is hope that the state will stop using its scare transportation dollars on questionable, politically driven transportation projects. Now we’ll have to see whether the House goes…
Again. This time for his assertion that the Garden Porkway would create 18,000 jobs. A highlight: Population growth in Gaston County has lagged behind the rest of the Charlotte region…
North Carolina has limited dollars to spend upon transportation and it simply can’t afford to waste them on projects that bring a low bang for the buck. And when it…
As expected, the EPA has little use for the 22-mile Garden Parkway toll road the NC Turnpike Authority wants to build through Gaston County. And truth be told, that route…
While ‘conservatives’ are suppose to love toll roads (Note: I don’t define myself as one, never have, never will), in North Carolina’s case, they’re merely a symptom of the state’s…
RALEIGH – Charlotte deserves just a D grade for its limited efforts to reduce traffic congestion, according to a new Policy Report from the John Locke Foundation and Reason Foundation.…