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The driverless taxi company Cruise is road-testing its vehicles on Charlotte streets through Saturday. During testing, its taxis will not actually be driverless — they’ll be driven by a person to gather data and get to know Charlotte’s roads and driving behaviors.
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Climate change is making it harder to breathe. For Black communities in the United States, air quality has always been an issue.
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CASSI, a self-driving shuttle, started making the rounds this week on a 2.2-mile route at UNC Charlotte. She’s the centerpiece of a six-month experiment on autonomous vehicles by the N.C. Department of Transportation — the first such project in Charlotte.
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Some municipalities want to change the voting structure on the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization, or CRTPO, to give towns like Huntersville and Cornelius more power.
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Charlotte and its surrounding municipalities are fighting about how the votes are counted on CRTPO, the federally required group that helps decide how and when roads are built in three counties — Iredell, Mecklenburg and Union.
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State officials have been scrambling to reopen the span of the interstate that collapsed last weekend. On a typical day, that span would have seen about 160,000 vehicles pass through.
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State transportation officials are in the early stages of developing plans to widen Providence Road and improve several of its busiest intersections. But don’t get too excited (or outraged) — any improvements to Providence Road, one of the main arteries between south Charlotte and uptown, would be at least 10 years away.
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Charlotte Douglas International Airport’s terminal lobby expansion is in its fourth year, and it will be more than two years until the project finishes in the fall of 2025.
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North Carolina environmental officials are facing lots of questions as they push to adopt rules by year's end that would speed sales of electric trucks and buses.
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The Charlotte Area Transit System will soon start looking for a new company to run its bus system, after years of operational problems and declining ridership.