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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; North Carolina Department of Transportation</title>
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		<title>Clogged interchange blamed for driving down real estate deals&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/08/20/clogged-interchange-blamed-for-driving-down-real-estate-deals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When we are working with clients and they are looking for space to lease or land to build on in our area, they comment to us about how terrible the traffic is,” Statesville-based general contractor Jerry Alford  said. “It is something we have to overcome in order to get people to do deals.”]]></description>
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		<title>$367.7M bypass design-build contract signed</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/26/367-7m-bypass-design-build-contract-signed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversial Monroe connector-bypass project is one step closer to becoming a reality. On Monday, North Carolina Department of Transportation Secretary Gene Conti and North Carolina Turnpike Authority Executive Director David Joyner signed the $367.7 million design-build contract for the 19.7-mile toll road. The contract has been awarded to Monroe Bypass Constructors, a joint venture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmentalists  challenge  toll road ruling&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/05/environmentalists-%e2%80%a8challenge-%e2%80%a8toll-road-ruling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Southern Environmental Law Center is challenging a ruling that paves the way for the more than $700 million Monroe Bypass project to move forward. On Monday, the SELC filed an appeal in federal court after U.S. District Court Judge James Dever III said an environmental-impact study was done properly. The appeal was filed on behalf of Clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I-485 planning meetings get under way&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/01/i-485-planning-meetings-get-under-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department is meeting with representatives from the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Gandy Development to plan for the future &#8212; and last &#8212; leg of the Interstate 485 loop around Charlotte. The groups will meet at 9 a.m. today, Wednesday and Thursday in the eighth floor of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferebee awarded $13.8M in DOT work&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/10/04/ferebee-awarded-13-8m-in-dot-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte-based Ferebee Corp. has been awarded two North Carolina Department of Transportation contracts totaling $13.8 million to improve about 50 miles of roads in Mecklenburg County. The work includes a $7.8 million contract for resurfacing and shoulder construction over 25.8 miles of highway, including Old Statesville Road, Tryon Street and Independence, W.T. Harris and University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CATS awarded $847,417 from NCDOT</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/07/20/cats-awarded-847417-from-ncdot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte Area Transit System is getting an $847,417 boost from the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The department&#8217;s board of transportation has OK&#8217;d the funding to improve public transportation in the Charlotte area. Funding is coming from three programs administered by the NCDOT&#8217;s Public Transportation Division. Through the Urban/Regional Bus and Facility Program, CATS was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troubled subdivisions lead to rocky roads for homeowners&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/04/15/troubled-subdivisions-lead-to-rocky-roads-for-homeowners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just last year, Alma Kohuth&#8217;s neighbors found themselves regularly dumping asphalt into potholes that scarred the roads running by their Mooresville homes. The developer of Lake Hills Estates had gone out of business and the new developer had passed the blame for the potholes on to the old developer, leaving Kohuth and the other homeowners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds&#8217; rail money could slow down in NC House bill</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/03/29/feds-rail-money-could-slow-down-in-nc-house-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH &#8212; North Carolina&#8217;s new slice of money from the federal government to improve Piedmont passenger train service could be pushed back under legislation being considered by state lawmakers. The House Transportation Committee scheduled debate today on a measure that would bar the state Department of Transportation from accepting federal funds for a high-speed rail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amtrak service to be suspended starting Monday</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/02/10/amtrak-service-to-be-suspended-starting-monday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amtrak train service between Raleigh and Charlotte will be suspended for 10 weeks starting Monday. The disruption in the Piedmont and Carolinian service will allow upgrades to be made to the railway. The North Carolina Department of Transportation, in a news release, said the project will &#8220;enhance the ride, making it smoother, with better on-time reliability this spring.&#8221; Norfolk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congestion fears grip residents near planned I-485 exit&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/02/08/congestion-fears-grip-residents-near-planned-i-485-exit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Coakley, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as Kelly St. Claire, a resident of the Highland Creek neighborhood, is glad that the last leg of the Interstate 485 belt will be completed in the next three years, she still has concerns. With the traffic buildup that St. Claire and other Highland Creek residents say they experience at the intersection of [...]]]></description>
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