1. Jan
    28

    What a Waste of Money

    Posted in Transportation & Infrastructure, Waste By Chris Hayes | Tagged , , ,

    If you wanted to increase travel efficiency between Raleigh and Charlotte, what is the better use of $520 million? 1. Upgrade a rail line (but not fully) that serves a few hundred people per day that could possibly grow to a couple of thousand people per day. 2. Replace the Yadkin River Bridge ($300M) and [...]

  2. 1
    Aug
    17

    Not Transit Time

    Posted in Transportation & Infrastructure By Chris Hayes | Tagged , , ,

    The News & Observer pens an editorial today telling Triangle residents that now is the time for transit to get going and for all you folks out there in Wake, Durham and Orange counties to go out and vote yourself a tax increase. The crux of the argument for the trains lies in this paragraph: [...]