Regulation
Gateway to the World
Central to North Carolina’s economic output is its position on the Eastern Seaboard and utilizing that geography to its advantage through its seaports. The Tar Heel State’s two seaports stand…
Norfolk Southern Railway
American Class I railway (1990–)
Liberty
Buttigieg Might Be Making Harris Look Better
Katherine Doyle of the Washington Examiner asks whether the U.S. transportation secretary is trading places with the vice president. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s response to a toxic chemical spill after…
Liberty
Train Derailment Produces ‘Nonsense Narratives’
Editors at National Review Online highlight the Department of Transportation’s questionable response to a high-profile train derailment in Ohio. The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report on the February 3…
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Concerns Over Toxic Chemicals Released After Train Derailment in Ohio
Concerns over an ominous cloud made up of burned off toxic chemicals continues to grow in East Palestine, Ohio after a recent train derailment. For the community, there are growing…
Liberty
High-speed rail from Charlotte to Atlanta?
The “tantalizing prospect” as the Charlotte Observer puts it: a high-speed rail line from Charlotte to Atlanta that would reduce the trip to just two hours: The Charlotte-to-Atlanta portion of…
Transportation
CJ reports: Durham-Orange Light Rail project is dead
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…
Liberty
Charlotte scraps uptown light rail tunnel
Charlotte Area Transit System has scrapped plans to tunnel under uptown in order to expand the city’s light rail line: Uptown is the densest part of the city, and an…
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Every reason NOT to build the Red Line to Lake Norman
Some bullet points from the Charlotte Observer article on the Metropolitan Transit Committee’s meeting discussing the proposed light rail line–the “Red Line”—to Lake Norman: *Huntersville John Aneralla advocated for more…
Transportation
Express bus service instead of the Red Line?
The basic idea, per the Charlotte Observer: Unable to move forward with a commuter rail line, the Charlotte Area Transit System is moving closer to starting the Red Line with…
Liberty
More Profitable to Leave, Huh?
Norfolk Southern has sold its Western North Carolina rail lines to Watco, an outfit based in Kansas. This could have implications for people who have lobbied Norfolk Southern to engage…
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Another big nail in the Red Line’s coffin
In addition to the federal government not pick up half the cost because ridership would be too low, Iredell County not being interested because they fear being stuck with the…
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Will Political Capital Prove More Valuable Than Economic Capital?
The Norfolk Southern owned a small bit of semi-abandoned railroad. Friends of the Ecusta Trail had hoped they could have it for a public greenway. Norfolk Southern, instead, sold it…