The question of who pays the ferryman is one from ancient Greece, and one’s eternal fate hung in the balance. Loved ones would place coins on the eyes or under the tongue of the deceased to ensure they would have the toll to pay Charon the ferryman, whose job it was to take souls across...
While Charlotte is known as the Queen City, the behavior of its leaders sometimes invites comparison to a different monarch: Hans Christian Anderson’s newly “clothed” Emperor. Earlier this month, the tale was restaged with House Speaker Tim Moore in the role of the plain-spoken youth. Appearing at a Charlotte Business Alliance forum alongside Senate leader...
In nearly all North Carolina communities with bus systems, ridership is significantly lower than it was just a few years ago. In Greensboro, for example, there were 1.9 million passenger trips on city buses last year, down approximately 60% from the total in 2014. Over the same period, Winston-Salem buses experienced a comparable drop-off. In...
A national expert offers five reasons to rely on fees to guide N.C. Department of Transportation decisions.
One recent study projects that home-based work will account for 20% of full workdays in the United States, up from 5% before the COVID crisis.
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.
Our state’s dispersed settlement patterns aren’t simply the result of zoning laws or road-building guiding residential development, because there is also a dispersal of employment.
No matter how many billions of tax dollars we spend on buses and trains, we can’t expect the share of our commutes carried by transit to rise into the double-digits anytime soon.
Earlier this month Amazon announced it was looking for a second headquarters in North America. The company said it would involve 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment. It is unquestionably a big deal. Nevertheless, some prices are too high, and what Amazon wants in exchange for bringing its headquarters to North Carolina is far...
The numbers don't justify taxpayer spending on a project with little projected benefit.
Wake County plans to spend billions for a transit plan targeting a small percentage of the local population.
