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Charlotte’s plan to lure bus riders back
For starters, here’s the problem the Charlotte Area Transit System faces: CATS is contending with the same nationwide decline in ridership that’s hit transit systems from the New York City…
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Private Business, Community Renovation
We free-market, limited-government folks tend to take a lot of criticism for being concerned only about business and not community. Of course, that’s not true at all. We love parks…
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Lynx extension costs more
Told ya. Current cost estimate of the 9.4 mile Blue Line extension: $1.16 billion. Project cost in 2007 of an 11 mile extension along the route: $700 million. Funny how…
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McColl: Nuke My Transit Center, Get UNCC Students Drunk Uptown
I swear, this town wouldn’t know news if it… Anyway, check what Hugh McColl is preaching to the Charlotte Business Journal. First on UNCC: We need to keep pressure on…
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About All That Gay Sex at Boyce Park
Back in February WBTV warned viewers that CMPD was looking into Boyce Park off of Sardis Road as a hotspot for anonymous gay sex hook-ups, “Police say men are meeting…
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Mayor's Firm Among Property Tax Deadbeats
It is that time again. Mecklenburg County property tax bills for 2010 officially became delinquent if not paid by January 6th. More than two weeks past that date and several…
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New LYNX Plan: The Nigel Tufnel Line
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and… Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? Nigel…
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CATS: Transit Plan "Unachievable" without New Tax
There we have it ladies and gents. Buried in the proposed legislative agenda the Charlotte city council will discuss tonight is language from CATS finally admitting what Official Charlotte has…
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Uptown's Secret Anthrax Scare
Cedar Posts is back with indications that Bank of America HQ on Tryon Street was the subject of an anthrax scare last week. Our reliably supine official media has reported…
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All Hail the MeckDeck Line to NoDa
As far back as 2006 it was obvious that CATS could not afford a $9b. transit plan. That reality, of course, is what drove the transit tax-repeal campaign of 2007.…
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Attention Uptown: The Media in 2010
We’ve linked to Cryptome‘s stuff a couple times over the years. No site does a better job of unearthing secrets the powerful would prefer to keep under wraps. This time…
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Why was the Highway Patrol on The Plaza?
Still cannot totally wrap my ahead around the received facts of the incident which left Latia Winchester, 25, dead after a car fleeing a NC Highway Patrol checkpoint smashed into…