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The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) has voted to authorize the NCDOT to conduct a study which seeks to improve traffic congestion along the I-77 corridor.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 10:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) will be voting Feb. 15 on a proposed study which will utilize managed lanes on Interstate 77.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 12:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s not all full-blown coronavirus news–at least not in the Queen City.
Published: Monday, May 18th, 2020 @ 3:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three former Governors, who led our state for 28 years, took center stage at Memorial Hall on the UNC Chapel Hill campus last week. Sponsored by the UNC Institute of Politics, the 80 minutes was historical, insightful and time well spent.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 @ 10:55 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Now that filing has closed for the 2020 North Carolina state House elections, four main questions surround who will control the chamber in 2021.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2020 @ 7:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Natasha Marcus of Davidson hopes to help fellow Democrats break the Republicans' supermajority hold in the N.C. Senate, but to do so she has to foil incumbent Republican Jeffrey Tarte's bid for a fourth term in Senate District 41
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2018 @ 1:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory says Roy Cooper, his Democratic successor, is repaying his trial lawyer campaign contributors by hiring them for expensive, politically motivated lawsuits against the GOP-led General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, June 20th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper has submitted several 'shovel ready' infrastructure projects to be considered by the federal government
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2017 @ 5:39 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper’s decision to wait to announce his cabinet appointments until after his swearing in is highly unusual as reported in this recent Civitas article
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2017 @ 10:00 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Cooper's extremist front group, Planned Parenthood, is caught lying to potential voters in order to recruit workers.
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2016 @ 6:15 pm
By: jonah
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Located in western Mecklenburg County, House District 92 is the rare legislative swing district in the state's most populous county
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 10:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Managed-lane opponents in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties aren't giving up after hearing the news that the Senate will allow the General Assembly to adjourn without taking up House Bill 954, a measure canceling the Interstate 77 high-occupancy or toll lanes project
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 2:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory fact checks related to the Gubernatorial Debate
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2016 @ 1:54 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Opponents of the proposed high-occupancy-or-toll lane project along Interstate 77 sense a bit of momentum after a bill ordering the N.C. Department of Transportation to cancel the project's contract overwhelmingly passed the House
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would put the brakes on the Interstate 77 high-occupancy or toll lanes project in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Efforts to block the controversial high-occupancy or toll lanes on Interstate 77 in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties gained momentum on Wednesday as a bill to cancel the project cleared two committees
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2016 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When you ask North Carolina voters to name the top election issue in state politics, the most common answer - unless we are in the midst of a recession - is education.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 @ 11:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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CityLab.com, a website on urban policy published by The Atlantic Monthly, reports that the High-Occupancy Tolling project on Interstate 77 north of Charlotte won a dubious honor, making the list of 12 “highway boondoggles” identified by U.S. PIRG, a group founded by Ralph Nader.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2016 @ 4:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's been a four year wait, but it looks like we're finally seeing the Cooper regime at the Department of Justice DO SOMETHING.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2016 @ 9:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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That noisy bunch of grassroots folks in Widen I-77 have been creating quite a fuss in recent months.
Published: Monday, August 24th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was paid $1.35 million since last May for three speaking engagements for a network marketing company that has been accused of being nothing more than a pyramid scheme.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 1:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Even though Gov. Pat McCrory has said the tolling project along the Interstate 77 corridor north of Charlotte will go forward, it faces a challenge to its constitutionality, as well as allegations the contractor did not meet full-disclosure requirements.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2015 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group of Lake Norman-area business leaders traveled by chartered bus to Raleigh on Tuesday to urge state legislators to support a bill that would cancel the state’s contract with a private company to build and operate toll lanes on Interstate 77 between Charlotte and Mooresville.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite widespread vocal opposition from area business leaders and residents, Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina Department of Transportation officials maintain it is too late for the state to scrap the controversial 26-mile Interstate 77 tolling project between Charlotte and Mooresville in favor o
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory and his top transportation lieutenant on Thursday outlined new highway construction projects designed to ease bottlenecks and facilitate the flow of traffic.
Published: Friday, December 5th, 2014 @ 11:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Republican legislator John Rhodes, running as a write-in unaffiliated candidate for US Senate, says voters AND the government need to take a closer look at the ethics of GOP US Senate nominee Thom Tillis.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 3:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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GOP leaders from Thom Tillis to Skip Stam to Pat McCrory have bent over backwards to tell us what a great idea privately-managed toll roads are.
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 1:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A 26-mile stretch of Interstate 77 in the Charlotte area soon could become the first highway in the state to use flexible toll pricing. Plans call for the state Department of Transportation to enter into a public-private partnership agreement with Cintra Infraestructuras, a company based in...
Published: Thursday, September 25th, 2014 @ 6:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now, it appears WCNC in Charlotte has found one more questionable scenario involving Tillis, some wealthy donors, their real estate deals, and the proposed I-77 toll lane project enthusiastically backed by Tillis.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 8:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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 new "public-private partnership" in North Carolina appears to put hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at risk while guaranteeing profit for a company that has run into trouble in other states.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of legislators with districts along the interstate thoroughfare, and a huge outcry from the citizenry.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In my forthcoming book on North Carolina's economy, Our Best Foot Forward, I discuss at length the role that transportation has played in the state's economic history.
Published: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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