Recent Streetsblog USA posts about North Carolina

Will NCDOT Break the Bank on an 8-Lane Highway Through Asheville?

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 17, 2014 | 3 Comments

Tomorrow, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group will release a report titled, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future.” In it, they examine 11 of the most wasteful, least needed road projects underway in America right now. Yesterday we published our first preview of the report, the story of the bizarre wishful thinking behind […]

NC Gov. McCrory Sets Out to Let Highway Money Flow While Blocking Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 12, 2013 | 5 Comments

A new transportation plan put forward by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory will make it “almost impossible to find money for passenger trains, sidewalks, bicycles and regional transit,” according to the Raleigh News Observer. McCrory’s Strategic Mobility Formula will clear the way for more spending on the state’s highway system, designating about 40 percent of […]

How States Are Adapting to MAP-21’s Changes to Bike/Ped Funding

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 28, 2012 | No Comments

The current transportation law dealt a few hard knocks to bicycling and walking programs. One big one was the restructuring of the Transportation Enhancements program into something called Transportation Alternatives, which has to fund more types of projects with less money. The idea is that each state’s TA money will get split in half. Fifty […]

This Could Be the Biggest Year Ever for Transit at the Ballot Box

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 10, 2012 | 6 Comments

Next month, 19 transit-related measures will come before voters. If the rest of this year is any guide, 16 of them will pass. Despite a high-profile loss in Atlanta a few months ago, transit referenda have an 86 percent success rate so far this year, according to the Center For Transportation Excellence. It strikes some […]

NRDC Gives Gas Consumption Maps a Helpful Revision

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 5, 2012 | 19 Comments

The overwhelming sentiment that greeted our story on the gas consumption maps the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club put out last week went something like this: These are almost useful. Just about everyone agreed that looking at total fuel consumption per county wasn’t very informative without weighing that number against population. There […]

Study: Access to Light Rail Can Reduce Obesity Risk — If You Use It

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 26, 2012 | 3 Comments

Living near transit can help you stay trim and healthy. That’s the result of a study published last year in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. This study is a little old — it was published in August 2011 — but we just came across it in the Reconnecting America resource center and the results are too […]

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