Opinion
Taxes do have their benefits
Gas-powered vehicles offered a market-friendly device, gas and car taxes, for users to pay for the overall road network roughly according to their use.
News
Report From Nader Group Calls I-77 Project ‘Boondoggle’
CityLab.com, a website on urban policy published by The Atlantic Monthly, reports that the High-Occupancy Tolling project on Interstate 77 north of Charlotte won a dubious honor, making the list of 12 “highway boondoggles” identified by U.S. PIRG, a group founded by Ralph Nader. In its report Highway Boondoggles 2: More Wasted Money and America’s...
Podcast
Legislators Could Tackle Key Education Reforms
Terry Stoops on K-12 legislative issues; Mike Lowrey on toll road plans; Buck Newton asks utility officials about Atlantic coast pipeline; June Atkinson & Kim Fink on revised AP U.S. History course; George Leef on push to send most kids to college
Opinion
No. 929: N.C. MOTORISTS: FOR WHOM THE ROADS TOLL
Toll roads are an excellent concept, but North Carolina has managed to turn them into tax machines, like the rest of the state's sorry roads program.
News
Bill Would Expand Toll Road Scope
CHARLOTTE — Many years before it will collect a single dime in revenue, the N.C. Turnpike Authority might expand its scope, thanks to legislation pending in the General Assembly. The proposed changes would allow the authority to build and operate six, instead of three, toll roads in the state and comes in response to the authority identifying at least four potentially viable routes for turnpikes. The idea was to build certain expensive new roads sooner than would otherwise be possible using traditional funding sources. North Carolina allocates road money through funding formulas that limit the amount of money available to any particular region.
