Change in ARC funding formula bodes well for WNC (Asheville Citizen Times)
For too much of our history, Western North Carolina and the rest of the Appalachian region has been the lost land where you couldn’t get there from here.
Now thanks to long overdue action by our General Assembly, WNC may at long last receive all […]
Urban loops (Jim Trogdon Ltr to Editor) (Winston Salem Journal)
I’m writing to clarify information regarding NCDOT’s ranking of urban loops (“Beltway betrayal,” Aug. 1).
There are 25 urban loop projects in North Carolina that are candidates for funding from the state. The total cost of all those projects is $8 billion, but the state has […]
Sell — Then Make a Political Sale (Video Poker and ABC Privitization) (Carolina Journal)
RALEIGH – Gov. Beverly Perdue remains one of the most unpopular governors in recent North Carolina history. But lately she’s been toying publicly with some ideas that could help boost her political bottom line a bit – while also boosting the state’s […]
NC angles for bigger slice of ARC money (Asheville Citizen Times)
The year after federal lawmakers added two counties in Congressman Lincoln Davis’ sweeping mid-Tennessee district to the Appalachian region, the government spent more than a quarter-million dollars there for a new water tank.
Lawrence County, where Davis and local leaders broke ground in April on the […]
2 sections of Greensboro loop tapped for completion (Greensboro News and Record)
GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Urban Loop ranks high in a new statewide review of such projects by the N.C. Department of Transportation, meaning two of its last three sections could be finished by mid-2020.
A new ranking of 21 unfinished sections of North Carolina’s […]
Good news, bad news for Brunswick leg of bypass (Wilmington Star News)
Road project scheduled for completion by 2020
The entire Brunswick leg of the U.S. 17 Wilmington Bypass should be ready to drive on by 2020, according to an urban loop funding schedule released by the N.C. Department of Transportation on Thursday.
The draft plan, which prioritized […]
Fayetteville’s I-295 tops draft priority list for DOT (WRAL.com)
Raleigh, N.C. — The outer loop of Interstate 295 in Fayetteville ranked high on list of 21 major road projects the North Carolina Department of Transportation is considering.
A draft of a priority list made public Thursday put the project ahead of several others, including several extensions of […]
Residents urge state to move on beltway (Winston Salem Journal)
People who live or own property along the path of the proposed Winston-Salem beltway poured out a decade of frustration yesterday in response to news that the state has no plans to start work on the road over the next 10 years.
More than 100 people […]
East End Connector gets green light (News and Observer)
The state Department of Transportation expects to start construction in 2013-14 on Durham’s East End Connector, one of North Carolina’s longest-delayed road projects.
First proposed in the 1970s, the $162 million project would create a north-south, stoplight-free drive between Interstate 85 and Research Triangle Park. It would upgrade […]
Beltway betrayal (Editorial in Winston Salem Journal)
Gov. Bev Perdue and the N.C. Department of Transportation slapped Winston-Salem and Forsyth County hard last week when it put the long-delayed eastern leg of the Northern Beltway at the bottom of a list of 21 urban loop projects statewide, according to a draft list obtained by the Journal. […]
