Transportation
The N&O editors still suffer from Rail Consensus Denial
The editors of The News & Observer continue to demand rail transit. They still have no idea how bad, wasteful, and unworkable an idea that is for the Triangle. The…
Durham–Orange Light Rail Transit
Liberty
Apparently the lesson of the Durham-Orange light rail line has been squandered
Just last week I noted head-scratching by taxpayers in Durham and Orange counties over the $159 million bill for the light rail project that will not happen. You’d think that…
Transportation
Rail transit is not the future
Even transit experts who generally favor rail transit have been warning that the Triangle is too dispersed for rail transit (massively expensive, highly limited, inflexible fixed-route systems). In recent years, ride-sharing…
Transportation
John Hood writes for Daily Journal: Rail transit doesn’t fit state
John Hood argues that light-rail transit doesn’t fit the preferences and lifestyles of North Carolinians: If you live somewhere other than the western side of North Carolina’s Research Triangle region,…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the demise of the proposed Durham-Orange light rail line. The Daily Journal critiques recent decisions from the University of North Carolina’s governing…
Liberty
‘Durham: Forward into the Past’
We learned last week that Duke University backed off from further negotiations with GoTriangle for the proposed Durham-Orange light-rail route running past its research and medical buildings on Erwin Road.…
Liberty
Oh yeah– then there’s Charlotte’s light rail….
As you can imagine, the Charlotte Observer is quite upset over the provision in the proposed budget stating “A light rail project is ineligible for scoring, prioritization, and State funding…
Transportation
Trump Budget Doles Out Cash To Orange/Durham Light Rail
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…
Liberty
Re: Durham-Orange light rail line
Anyone else find it interesting that days before a key vote on the proposed Durham-Orange light line, the Orange County Board of Commissioners –as well as residents attending the public…
Liberty
Indy Week is (mostly) right about light rail
It’s long, and I don’t agree with every single point, but it’s worth posting when Indy Week writes something with which I’m 90% on board. Durham-Orange light rail is a…
Liberty
Strategic Transportation Investment program. Good idea. Now let it work.
As you may be aware, both the House and Senate budgets repealed the $500,000 cap on state funding for light rail. For those of us who are not big fans…