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A day after the N.C. Senate released a budget with no money for Charlotte's light-rail extension, House Speaker Thom Tillis said Wednesday he believes it will be in the General Assembly's final spending plan... Read On 

A day after the N.C. Senate released a budget with no money for Charlotte's light-rail extension, House Speaker Thom Tillis said Wednesday he believes it will be in the General Assembly's final spending plan... Read On 

The N.C. Senate would slam the brakes on Charlotte's long-planned northeast light rail extension, eliminating state money that officials say could jeopardize the entire project... Read On 

So I'm poring through Charlotte City Manager Curt Walton's proposed budget today - I know you wish you could do the same, but sometimes they just pay us here at the paper to have fun like that - and I notice that the City Council's committees and their "focus areas" seem to have dropped a word from previous years. That word is "planning."... Read On 

Peter Haas offered a sympathetic gasp when I told him I drive 34 miles to work each morning. "Ooh," Haas said. "I don't drive that far in a week." And that's only part of the reason Chicago, where Haas lives, ranks 12th from the bottom in a new index of gas-guzzling cities. And why the Triangle stands at the very top - at the worst end - of this national list... Read On 

Local elected officials on a western Triangle planning board endorsed a $1.4 billion bus and rail transit plan Wednesday that - if local voters agreed - would be financed in part with a half-cent sales tax increae in Durham and Orange counties... Read On 

Charlotte's mass-transit system acted as a strong stimulant for real estate, but even the rail line couldn't overcome the effects of the recession. Now, with the economy growing, developers are upbeat about new life in the corridor. The next wave of projects likely will be modest because the real estate market doesn't enjoy the liquidity it did before the recession. And they likely will be dominated by apartments ... Read On 

A report on the expected environmental impact of Charlotte's proposed 10-mile northwest-east streetcar states there would be no significant negative effects on residents or surrounding neighborhoods. Yet the report also describes poles and overhead wires needed for an electric streetcar system as a negative visually... Read On