Eric Revell writes for Fox Business about an alternative to the gas tax. The leader of a trade group that represents most major automakers called on the federal government to…
Introduction North Carolina has more than 80,500 miles of state-owned highways, more than any other state besides Texas. Unlike Texas, which owns one-fourth of the 322,000 miles of roads in…
How can North Carolina pay for the construction and maintenance of roads in the future? The North Carolina Future Investment Resources for Sustainable Transportation (NC F1RST) Commission is looking for ways…
The Highway Fund and Highway Trust Fund pay the transportation needs of North Carolina. For most of their existence, these funds also transferred money to the General Fund and paid…
Carolina Journal‘s Lindsay Marchello reports on Duke University’s sudden refusal to sign a cooperative agreement with GoTriangle over concerns with the Light Rail: Gerry Cohen, former special counsel to the…
In a recent post at Cato.org, Chris Edwards discusses a U.S. Department of Transportation report detailing the “Disposition Of State Highway-User Revenues.” Edwards provides a table showing the rate of…
The folks at Indyweek.com are very excited about the behemoth budget deal signed into law by President Trump. Why? Because despite talk that the president would cut funding to transit…
Each February, the State Treasurer’s Debt Affordability Advisory Committee preempts the hopefulness of Groundhog Day with the publication of the annual Debt Affordability Study, the committee’s reminder that state government…
…What will WSP USA – formerly known as WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff —-recommend? Whatever it is—a Red line and/or a Silver line to go along with the Blue line running up to…
The North Carolina House of Representatives has released its budget and, as I expected, there are few policy changes that affect local government operations. But there is, on page 300,…
A commuter rail line between N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro and Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem was big talk several years ago, but–what a coincidence—talk seemed to die when the…
Some interesting thoughts on commuting in this report, A Commentary on the Notion of Extreme Commutes. With more and more folks traveling across county lines every day, what impact will…