By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: March 5,2013
CHARLOTTE – When the city’s light rail trains finally crawl north by 2017, planning officials are hoping there will be a park-and-ride station at J.W. Clay Boulevard, the proposed second-to-last stop. That’s the goal of a rezoning petition filed by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department. The petition asks to rezone a 2.4-acre tract of land at [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: January 7,2011
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx addressed the budget challenges he expects in 2011 and his plans to deal with them in a media briefing Friday morning. In the first quarter of 2011, Foxx said he plans to have a conversation among regional leaders, including representatives from Mecklenburg County and its surrounding towns, about a proposed consolidation [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: December 21,2010
Although cutting or scaling back the right of way project along North Tryon Street would save $45 million, the Charlotte Area Transit System has decided to preserve those improvements. Such projects involve incorporating bike lanes in the roads, adding or widening sidewalks and putting in planting strips to comply with the city’s Urban Street Design [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: December 21,2010
Faced with a $1.15 billion deficit between 2010 and 2035 rather than the $1.6 billion surplus projected in 2006, the Charlotte Area Transit System proposed Wednesday night to cut the Lynx Blue Line Extension project, ending the line at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte station. The cut would mean eliminating a park-and-ride lot [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: December 14,2010
The decision by the Metropolitan Transit Commission and the Charlotte Area Transit System to scale back the planned Lynx Blue Line Extension has Noel Smith concerned. President of North End Development Partners, an economic development advocacy group for the North Tryon corridor, Smith is invested in the revitalization efforts for the North Tryon Street corridor [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 30,2010
When the city of Charlotte won a $25 million federal Urban Circulator Grant to build a starter streetcar line through uptown, from Time Warner Cable Arena to Presbyterian Hospital, supporters touted the 1 1/2-mile section as an important step toward a proposed 10-mile track. The plan was to expand the starter line from Eastland Mall [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 23,2010
As Republicans regain the majority in the U.S. and North Carolina House of Representatives and the state Senate, it’s not known what the political changes will mean for major transit projects in the Charlotte region. Some hear squealing brakes. For John Szmer, assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [...]
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