Who will adopt North Carolina’s abandoned roads?
The issue of orphan roads has been brewing under the radar for years in North Carolina, but with the state’s surging growth in population, that may not be the case for much longer.
During the 1920s, North Carolina’s paved road mileage exploded by 92%. The commercial and social life of our state was radically transformed.
Over the past decade, the only major category of state spending that has dropped significantly in real terms is highways.
Debates about transit often devolve into fanciful claims, historical revisionism, and bizarre economics.
North Carolina readers will be particularly interested in his comparison of the Charlotte transit line to other systems and the national average. The results aren’t pretty.
RALEIGH — In today’s Friday interview the John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai discusses planning penalties with economist Randal O’Toole of the Thoreau Institute and the American Dream Coalition. He recently completed The Planning Penalty: How Smart Growth Makes Housing Unaffordable, a national report. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).