Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, discusses funding issues that have caused concerns for supporters of the N.C. Department of Transportation. Coletti offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify a statement about state law requirements for NCDOT’s cash balance. The N.C. Department of Transportation is running out of gas. NCDOT depleted its budget in 2019, a new report shows, leaving top members of the N.C. General…
If your goal is to alleviate traffic congestion and its adverse consequences, reduce the extent to which people enter vehicles of any kind in the first place, and how long they stay in them.
Let me be clear, before I get too far into this piece, that I’m a big fan of good health. I try to eat right, I work out or run about every day, and, even at my advanced age, consider myself physically fit. I like bicycles,…
As our state continues to grow and develop, we will need to have transportation revenue and expenditure systems that keep up with demand and produce high value for every dollar invested.
Republicans are getting impatient. Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper insists Medicaid expansion be included in the General Fund budget, and the Republican-dominated General Assembly unequivocally refuses. Lawmakers passed a budget bill and sent to it the governor, who vetoed it June 28.
Starting Monday, Aug. 5, bus riders to Research Triangle Park will be able to get free or discounted rides from Uber or Lyft to reach the last stretch of their destination. One transportation expert says this is a sign that public transit is on the way out. …
A woman in South Carolina was killed when she mistakenly got into a car she thought was an Uber. N.C. lawmakers have introduced legislation to prevent something similar from happening here, but a policy expert from the free-market R Street…
North Carolina’s 2020 U.S. Senate race picked up two more candidates in recent weeks. Cal Cunningham, a former state senator, dropped his campaign for lieutenant governor to make a second bid for the upper chamber on Capitol Hill. Another former state senator, Eric Mansfield, also added his name to the…
Jon Guze, John Locke Foundation director of legal studies, discusses the decision to repeal North Carolina’s Map Act. Guze offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
