We are also very excited to announce the next meeting of the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition will be on December 13th in the Triangle. We are planning to begin at 10 AM and will finish the same day. This will prove to be a very full day, so block your calendars now. […]
North Carolina has significant transportation needs right now.The American Society of Civil Engineers gave North Carolina an overall grade of C- for its infrastructure, including a D- for roads, a C- for bridges and a C for rail. Twenty-six percent of major roads are in poor or mediocre condition, and 27% of bridges are […]
An intriguing new trend is emerging in some communities: bicycle-friendly business districts (BFBDs). A handful of cities have created or are exploring the creation of BFBDs.
We’re fortunate to have perhaps the nation’s expert on BFBDs, April Economides, educate us about this trend. Economides created the nation’s first Bike-Friendly Business District program for the City of […]
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 […]
