FACTSHEET: Transportation | Eastern North Carolina Now

Governor McCrory recognizes that our state's transportation infrastructure plays a critical role in attracting and retaining businesses, while connecting people to jobs, healthcare, education and recreation. That's why he created a 25-year vision to map our future and determine how to best...

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    Governor McCrory recognizes that our state's transportation infrastructure plays a critical role in attracting and retaining businesses, while connecting people to jobs, healthcare, education and recreation. That's why he created a 25-year vision to map our future and determine how to best leverage our infrastructure to catalyze economic growth.

Accomplishments:

  • Governor McCrory is now more efficient with taxpayer money because of the overwhelming bipartisan support and passage of the Strategic Transportation Investments Law that created the new Mobility Formula.
  • The formula takes the politics out of allows us to use real data to score and program projects based factors including safety, congestion, and economic competiveness.
  • The McCrory Administration will begin work on roughly 300 more projects in next 10 years then what would be funded under the old formula. Even with that efficiency increase we are only able to build roughly 18% of the infrastructure that cities and counties tell us they need.

Key Investments Needed for all Regions of North Carolina:

  • From the coast to the mountains, North Carolina's regions have diverse economies and needs. Our 25-year vision for transportation focuses on region-specific solutions.
  • To accomplish our goal, Governor McCrory will request a transportation bond of $1.2 billion that will allow for faster and more efficient construction of projects during the next 10 year project cycle, in support of our overall 25-year vision.
  • We will continue to protect and stabilize our existing transportation revenue streams.

Investing in the Coast:

  • We'll make it easier for the military to move troops and equipment during deployments while improving the transportation of goods to and from our ports.
  • We will relieve congestion during the busy tourist season and improve emergency evacuation routes.
  • We'll also make strategic investments in beach nourishment, aging bridges, ferries and our ports by securing federal money for dredging.

Investing in the East:

  • Connect northeastern North Carolina to the Hampton Roads region in Virginia.
  • Strengthen military connections by improving highway and rail connections between bases, as well as to regional healthcare and education centers.

Investing in the Piedmont:

  • Connect small towns to economic centers in order to make it easier for people to travel to jobs, education, healthcare and recreation.
  • Focus on relieving interstate congestion bottlenecks for people and products.
  • Ease the flow of freight

Investing in the West:

  • Connect the mountains to economic centers in Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, and to the coast by improving the flow of traffic from Wilmington to Asheville.
  • 52Enhance industrial rail to support freight and economic growth.

  • Contact: Crystal Feldman
  •     govpress@nc.gov

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