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Ridership on the Lynx Blue Line and express buses serving uptown increased in March compared with the previous year. But local bus ridership was essentially flat, despite more people working in-person
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The Urban Land Institute says the proposed Silver Line should share tracks with the Blue Line through uptown. The current plan calls for the Silver Line to avoid most of center city.
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The Charlotte Area Transit System wants to revamp its bus network to move away from a hub-and-spoke system and have more crosstown routes. But a detailed look at ridership shows those crosstown routes are some of the worst-performing.
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When it comes to transit in the Charlotte area, everyone wants "regionalism." But nobody is quite sure how to get there.
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Charlotte’s new focus on regionalism brings more people to the table, but can they all agree on a vision? One Union County town awaits more details.
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Analysis: Charlotte leaders want to redesign streets to save lives. At the current pace, that will take hundreds of years.
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Rising prices for materials, labor, land acquisition and fuel make construction on road-improvement projects more expensive. North Carolina is $12 billion short on funding planned transportation projects, according to state projections, and that could leave plans for roads, bridges and other infrastructure on the drawing board for years.
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From messaging to strategy to financial projections, the City Council’s discussion this week shows Charlotte’s big transit plan remains a work in progress.
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Cameras ticketed speeders and red-light runners on Charlotte streets 15-plus years ago. As traffic deaths rise, some want them to return.
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A City Council committee on Monday got a closer look at some of the numbers dictating how, when and where the rail line is likely to be built. Some of the details? Planners have suggested a new timeline, costs and stations for the proposed light rail line; and a consultant is defending an uptown route.