The $1.09 billion discretionary grant will be used to build the initial leg of a passenger rail line
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2024 @ 10:14 am
By: Governor's Office
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Funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will also identify new routes for passenger rail within NC
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 9:14 am
By: Governor's Office
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Ridership Hitting New Records on Piedmont and Carolinian Following Start of New Routes Nearly 66,000 people rode NC By Train in October
Published: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 @ 9:34 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) was recently saddled with allegations of misrepresentation and error over a newly proposed silver line transit route.
Published: Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 @ 2:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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At a forum hosted by the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance on Jan. 9, House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger discussed a host of issues leading up to the 2023 legislative session, which began on Jan. 11.
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 @ 8:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper says more people rode the N.C. Department of Transportation’s intercity passenger rail service in September than any previous month in the 32-year history of the NC By Train service.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 9:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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A new report has found that serious crimes are increasing in New York City, including on the subway system, despite new mayor Eric Adams dismissing concerns.
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 7:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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2021 started with a bang in New York City — literally.
Published: Saturday, January 16th, 2021 @ 3:18 am
By: Judicial Watch
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An MIT study on the factors that contributed to the transmission of COVID-19 has gotten a lot of traction recently.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2020 @ 12:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Raleigh continues to hope its free downtown bus, the R-Line Circulator, has more lasting significance than The Ting Tings. Still, recent decisions to end the free circulator bus service in Nashville and Washington, D.C., suggest it may be time to end the experiment here as well.
Published: Saturday, January 11th, 2020 @ 9:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Starting Monday, Aug. 5, bus riders to Research Triangle Park will be able to get free or discounted rides from Uber or Lyft to reach the last stretch of their destination. One transportation expert says this is a sign that public transit is on the way out.
Published: Thursday, August 8th, 2019 @ 9:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The public transportation system in Wilson, as in many places, needs taxpayer subsidies to keep the buses running. The difference between the cost of operating the system and revenues, led by passenger fares, is more than $1 million a year
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2018 @ 7:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has put out a long range transit plan for the state that calls for a “connected statewide network” and “public bus lines reaching out into rural part of the state”.
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 8:22 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina is betting on an expensive project to increase consumer spending in a small area of the state, and this time it's starting with a $6 million down payment
Published: Thursday, January 4th, 2018 @ 8:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N&O today is celebrating because there was a step forward in the process to soak Triangle taxpayers for a wildly inefficient, crony boondoggle: the proposed Durham-Orange light rail
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2017 @ 9:02 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Taxpayer advocates, public policy analysts, and Republican Party officials Tuesday slammed a Wake County sales tax referendum and characterized a proposed transit plan as a giant boondoggle
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 @ 12:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2015, the city of Raleigh spent $4.62 million on on-road bikeways. Between 2009 and 2015, Raleigh grew its bikeways from 73 miles to 179 miles
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On June 6, the Wake County Board of Commissioners approved a transit plan. This is not good news
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2016 @ 11:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While debate over using state tax money for light-rail projects continues, a news story is pointing out more clearly than ever that light-rail is already a thing of the past
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2016 @ 9:25 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Political pundits continue to debate the sources of Donald Trump's success during the 2016 Republican presidential primary process
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2016 @ 12:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I got a chance to ride the rails with mom before planes and cars took over traveling
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:53 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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A few days a week, I ride a Triangle Transit 301 bus to and from the palatial Civitas HQ in the Warehouse District of Raleigh. But even as a transit rider, my blood runs cold when I hear government planners are plotting ways to bring throw taxpayers' money at light-rail systems and commuter rail...
Published: Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 @ 1:47 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wake County officials insist the launch of another mass transit study is not an attempt to find a friendlier outcome just one year after three transit consultants determined the market couldn’t bear the costs of light rail.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics of a just-passed Senate bill complain that it limits the ability of Wake, Guilford, and Forsyth counties to raise sales taxes to fund proposed rail transit systems in the Triangle and Triad.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A trio of transportation experts told the Wake County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday that more bus service, and less eagerness to move to light rail, appears to be the best next step for Wake County.
Published: Thursday, November 14th, 2013 @ 6:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Guess what? Evidence is suggesting that toll road projects - like the one proposed for I-77 in Mecklenburg County - may not be the budgetary magic bullet that the state bureaucracy is hoping for. ABC NewsChannel 11 has the story.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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List of resource links.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Orange County voters will decide in November whether to raise taxes on themselves to help "invest" $1.4 billion toward construction of 17 miles of transit line that would have a miniscule impact on traffic congestion and air pollution.
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2012 @ 1:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Iredell County commissioners unanimously found wanting a proposal to build a $452 million, 25-mile commuter rail line from the center of Charlotte through Huntersville, Cornelius, and Davidson, to a termination point near Mooresville.
Published: Friday, March 23rd, 2012 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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