Scooter trips in Charlotte are up 61% this year. The city has capped the number, but it's also adding protected bike lanes to improve safety and mobility.

While travel by car and plane has rebounded quickly, Charlotte’s light rail and bus trips are merely inching upward — still down 60% from pre-pandemic numbers.

In a Q&A with WFAE's Steve Harrison, Ron Tober, the first chief executive of the Charlotte Area Transit System, says the rail plan misses opportunities uptown, by the airport and with Mecklenburg’s northern towns.

Depending on who you listen to, the "bus-only lanes" program was either a godsend or abhorrent, a progressive look at what the future of transportation could hold or an unnecessary imposition on an already traffic-clogged thoroughfare.