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Post-pandemic transportation
What will the world be like when we finally conquer the coronavirus? The major factor in the post-pandemic world will be transportation–how will we get where we need to go…
Highway
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Winston-Salem’s Business I-40 now open–early
As desperate as it all seems sometimes, there are things to make you smile and give you hope. One might be the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl after 50 years…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
A fresh look at American highways
Robert Poole writes at National Review Online about the need to rethink the way America treats its highways. It’s not hard to see that there is something fundamentally wrong with…
Transportation
Charlotte’s I-485 opens today!
From the Charlotte Observer: After 27 years of construction, the last piece of Charlotte’s outerbelt will be finished and open for traffic on Friday, June 5, the N.C. Department of…
Liberty
Perhaps Pending Possibility Could-Potentially Be Conceivably Prospective
Saith WLOS: Survey crews are out on Interstate 26 for [perhaps] a [possibly] potential project that might [could potentially] include widening the highway, said Rick Tipton, the division construction engineer…
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I-485 completition delayed
Imagine that, a major highway project opening behind schedule. In any case, N.C. Department of Transportation officials are now saying that the final 5.7-mile stretch of I-485 in northeast Mecklenburg…
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Waiting for the Godot Connector
Twenty years later, people in West Asheville remain at bay wondering when the new highway will scuttle whose plans with eminent domain. An announcement today does little to resolve anything,…
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David Hartgen against Monroe Connector-Bypass
In a paper for the Southern Environmental Law Center. Another major blow for the proposed highway. Link to Charlotte Observer article here on the topic.
Transportation
New Carolina Journal Online features
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with national transportation expert David Hartgen about the state of North Carolina’s highways. John Hood’s Daily Journal details an economic…
Transportation
We’re No. 38! We’re No. 38!
That’s the ranking longtime UNC-Charlotte transportation studies professor David Hartgen assigns to North Carolina highways for “overall performance and spending efficiency” in the new report Are Highways Crumbling?
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online that former Gov. Mike Easley has conducted financial transactions involving several hundred thousand dollars while refusing to pay most of a $100,000 fine…
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“The Feds Want Your Car” newsletter…
…from Cato’s Randal O’Toole covers the push in Congress for the transportation reauthorization bill that will provide funding for the next six years. He also discusses the reports by transportation…