S.F. TRANSIT IPad app to replace jumble of radios, logs, phone calls
Another? Paper and pens.
The Bay Area’s busiest transit agency, with 700,000 boardings a day, has relied on an inefficient mixture of radios, phones, a GPS tracking system and old-fashioned handwritten reports to manage the fleet.
The cumbersome system can result in delayed responses to […]
When most think of high-speed rail in the United States, they think of the ambitious and controversial effort in California.
The project, already 16 years in the making, is subject to bitter debate among Golden State legislators — mostly about its speculative funding plan, which assumes that as much as $42 billion of its $68.4 billion […]
Buoyed by recent enhancements to film tax incentives, movie-making in North Carolina is in the midst of an unprecedented surge, but lawmakers’ plans to overhaul the state tax structure in 2013 place a cloud of uncertainty over the industry’s long-term prognosis.
Jason Rosin, a member of the N.C. Film Council and a business agent for the […]
High Point Police Chief Marty Sumner, flanked by volunteers from a local church, attends a lunch for police department staffers hosted by community members.
Washington — A few years ago, the city of High Point, North Carolina, had a seemingly intractable problem: neighborhoods with persistently high levels of crime, driven by open-air drug markets that were […]
The North Carolina Department of Transportation increasingly includes the health of North Carolinians in its transportation decision-making. With an expanded mission that now includes health, the agency is integrating public health considerations into its initiatives, plans, and policies, as well as exploring the use of health impact assessments.
North Carolina’s economic vitality and the quality of […]
City wants larger share of the pie; county says more discussion needed
When Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo asked the New Hanover County Commissioners about the city getting a larger share of sales tax money, some at the table laughed.
After the room quieted down, Saffo reiterated his stance. “We’d like to just see more of it, that’s […]
The co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee want to know more about the Mid-Currituck Bridge toll project before the N.C. Turnpike Authority moves forward with it. In a letter to Turnpike Authority Executive Director David Joyner, they ask that the agency not proceed with the “commercial close” of the project until it answers […]
With $300,000 invested and 29 charging stations installed, Raleigh is poised to embrace a new wave of electric vehicles. Whether that wave is really coming, though, is still a question for the fortune tellers.
Transportation leaders from across eight states gathered in the capitol city last week to discuss how they might grease the tracks for […]
Following the conclusion of the summer short session meeting of the North Carolina General Assembly, Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo said he was pleased with the trial run of the McGuireWoods Consulting firm. Being that this was the first time the city of Wilmington employed the services of a lobbyist to pursue its political agenda in […]
North Carolina has set a record for in-state film production spending this year with five months left to go. The North Carolina Film Office reported Wednesday that 35 films in 30 counties have accounted for $300 million in spending this year. The previous record of a little more than $220 million was set last year. […]
