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The city of Charlotte’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes a sizable increase in funding for the Charlotte Area Transit System, reflecting continuous investment even as ridership remains significantly lower than peak levels a decade ago.
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As plans for adding lanes to Interstate 77 south of uptown Charlotte get delayed, costs are surging past $3 billion.
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It's still called the Red Line, and the route is the same. But everything else in the Charlotte Area Transit System's commuter rail plans could change.
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A Federal Transit Administration report gives some insight into the Gold Line’s financial challenges. The FTA’s most recent report for the Charlotte Area Transit System — covering fiscal year 2022 — has one eye-popping metric: how much it costs to move a passenger one mile.
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An 85-page plan obtained through a public records request details the possibilities for Charlotte. Public documents show plenty of greenways and sidewalks on the city’s wish list of transportation projects; building and widening roads might be a challenge.
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If you’ve been following transit and transportation for a few years in Charlotte, you might be forgiven for a reflexive twinge of skepticism when it comes to grand pronouncements about the future. Big ideas seem to be ever-slipping out of sight over the horizon.
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With little progress on transit after almost five years, city staff at a City Council retreat outline "roads-first" ideas — but how different would a revised plan really be? Not very.
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As Charlotte pumps tourism money into sports stadiums, Asheville is spending it on greenways and parks — and now maybe affordable housing and transit, too.
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Gastonia, population 81,000, will be the biggest city in North Carolina to shift to on-demand vans, SUVs and sedans for public transportation.
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The announcement last week of federal funding for high-speed rail in the Southeast generated plenty of excitement. It conjured pleasant images of relaxing in a comfortable train seat with a book and occasionally dozing off, while zipping easily to Atlanta or Washington D.C. — and avoiding the hassles of fighting traffic and dodging unending construction and wrecks on interstates.