Charlotte Area Transit Authority has selected two firms “to begin discussions over the redevelopment of the Charlotte Transportation Center, potentially a nearly $400 million project.” More details here. Note this…
That’s a bold–yet truthful— statement from Winston-Salem Assistant City Manager Damon Dequenne regarding the proposed streetcar line that would run between Winston-Salem State University and Wake Forest University at a…
So goes the logic according to the Charlotte Observer: About 1,000 people jammed the UNC Charlotte light rail station Friday morning. They wore T-shirts that said “First to ride” and…
View in your browser. In some circles, it is thought that for a community to be said to truly exist, it must be World Class. It is assumed that all…
Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports on comments by Gov.-Elect Pat McCrory about the potential of state funding for a rail plan in the Triangle. Although he’s warned repeatedly that there…
View in your browser. There is more evidence that small cities and towns in the Triangle will grow while Raleigh will continue to stagnate. As reported in an earlier newsletter,…
Based on our review of the TTA Response, we continue to have major reservations concerning the feasibility of the Wake County Transit Plan. The TTA Response does not adequately respond…
View in your browser. The Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church in Charlotte was fined $100 per branch for excessive tree pruning for a total of nearly $5,000. Charlotte, like many North…
I took note of this N&O article on the advisory panel of a Raleigh neighborhood unanimously voting against the proposed high-speed rail line. Government’s reaction? ‘There’s a lot of misinformation…
Anyone get the feeling the sudden local Republican interest in dissenting — ever so conditionally — from the city of Charlotte’s streetcar juggernaut is intended to be the opening salvo…
….In Burlington. JLF’s Joe Coletti alerts me to state Sen. Tony Foriest’s bill allowing the Burlington City Council to “make appropriations and authorize economic incentives for purposes of aiding and…
Mecklenburg County Commissioner Chair Jennifer Roberts recently struck a distressingly mendacious chord by attempting to explain the county’s fiscal troubles with reference to Mecklenburg’s growth in the past decade. Roberts…