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I work at the Wells Fargo CIC center but I live in Ballantyne. Selfishly, I want this line!
it will help the downtown a lot with more student taking the rail down there. wish i would still be here when it is installed 
Would have came in handy last night, and will for future events downtown. I’m considering buying a house/condo/townhouse within walking distance of any of the rail stops if they seriously get this up and running within the next handful of years to the U…
clt endorses a mono rail*
clt does not know Lyle Lanley
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/03/10/2125754/blue-lynx-costs-expected-to-rise.html
Current line maintenance for each car is projected to to increase from $2 million per year to $3million per year because of maintenance? Hey, at least it provides “goodwill”. They estimated $11.4 million per year in operating costs, but now say $14.6 million (30%+).
Do you really believe the new one will cost $900 million, or does it even matter to you? They are worried about paying for maintenance, but want the state and federal government to pay for 75% of the cost to build a new line they cannot afford to even maintain?
City council will meet tonight to discuss the Lynx extension. Not sure how long the story will be up, but as of this post, it’s one of the featured stories on foxcharlotte.com.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/25/2323509/senate-targets-new-light-rail.html
Looks like the choo choo to campus is dead.
[quote=“NinerAdvocate, post:68, topic:24357”]http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/25/2323509/senate-targets-new-light-rail.html
Looks like the choo choo to campus is dead.[/quote]
Crap like this is exactly why I voted for McCrory in 2008. It is appalling how much the east-controlled state government bones Charlotte time and time and time again.
i’m pissed
Why sweat it guys? You have a chancellor and administration that knows how to work the suits in Raleigh. Grab another glass of green Kool Aid, have no fear, CHP willl come through in the end. Just go back to the med school issue to see how that worked out.
[quote=“UNCCTF, post:69, topic:24357”][quote=“NinerAdvocate, post:68, topic:24357”]http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/25/2323509/senate-targets-new-light-rail.html
Looks like the choo choo to campus is dead.[/quote]
Crap like this is exactly why I voted for McCrory in 2008. It is appalling how much the east-controlled state government bones Charlotte time and time and time again.[/quote]
Beverly Perdue elected on 'Screw Charlotte' platform Published 11.11.08 By Tara ServatiusGovernor-elect Beverly Perdue and her cronies at the state capital must have had a good laugh as the election results rolled in. I know I did. Perdue smacked Charlotte voters hard two weeks ago when she ran commercials across the state – basically everywhere but the Charlotte and Raleigh television markets – mocking her opponent, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, for wanting to spend state money in Charlotte.
The ads were a slap in the faces of Charlotte voters. They were also part of a clear calculation on Perdue’s part that she could win by promising Charlotte-funded goodies to the rest of the state at our expense. That’s been standard operating procedure for decades at the state legislature, which is controlled by rural Democrats.
The attitude in Raleigh has long been that Charlotte can afford to pay all the state’s bills, plus the tab for the stuff that the state is supposed to fund in Charlotte. This same attitude was practically a campaign theme for Perdue.
Despite her best efforts to keep her anti-Charlotte commercials out of the Charlotte market, local news stations picked them up anyway and ran them again and again.
Yet amazingly, unfathomably, she won in the Charlotte area, barely beating out McCrory.
Charlotte can't seem to get Interstate 485 completed, and work that was scheduled to begin 20 years ago on Independence Boulevard still remains unfunded. Meanwhile, in Fayetteville, a $300 million interstate project sailed through the state funding process. It will carry 9,000 automobiles, fewer than Charlotte's Scaleybark Road carries, The Charlotte Observer recently reported. According to the same Observer article, there is no other instance of a loop being built for so few people anywhere along the East Coast.
This is known as “consequences” 
Hey, anybody on this board or living in the Charlotte region that voted for Bev over Pat (essentially picking Eastern NC over Charlotte) is getting just what they deserve. Sad, but true.
are you sitting down? Okay. The state is broke.
Bev had the big Obama coattails to ride into office in 2008. I do not believe that there will be the same turnout of first-time Democrat voters in 2012. I am sure Mayor Pat will run again, and I think Bev will have a more difficult time winning even as the incumbent.
I always wondered if there are so many UNC-CH alums in Charlotte, how does the city have so little pull with the state?
The transportation budget would cancel two toll road and bridge projects and block state funding for rail transit in Charlotte as part of an effort to reserve extra money for road maintenance and bridge repair. Fiscal researchers said the Senate plan would provide enough money to replace 36 percent of North Carolina's substandard bridges over the next two years. "We wanted to target more dollars to maintaining the system we have - as opposed to building new roads, new bridges, new parts of the system," Phil Berger said. The Senate would kill state funds for two rail transit projects in Charlotte. That could set a precedent for Triangle officials who are counting on the state to cover 25 percent of construction costs for planned light rail and commuter train projects that could cost a total of $3.5 billion over the next 15 years. "This would hurt Charlotte in the very near term and, if it were to stand, would hurt us in the Triangle, clearly," said David King, general manager of Triangle Transit. But Sen. Richard Stevens of Cary, one of the chief budget writers, warned against reading too much into the current plan. He said he would not rule out prospects for Triangle rail transit funding in future years.
Given the choice between building train tracks and replacing worn-out highway bridges, I’m definitely choosing the latter. The mass infrastructure built in the 50’s and 60’s, and even in the 70’, is deteriorating fast. If we don’t allocate the monies to replace these structures now, it’s going to cost even more in the future and there is a chance that the bridges could get to the point of having to be closed even before replacement due to this deterioration if simply repairing the existing bridges does not make them safe to drive on.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/05/25/1223172/senate-puts-forth-its-budget.html
[quote=“X-49er, post:78, topic:24357”]
The transportation budget would cancel two toll road and bridge projects and block state funding for rail transit in Charlotte as part of an effort to reserve extra money for road maintenance and bridge repair.
Fiscal researchers said the Senate plan would provide enough money to replace 36 percent of North Carolina’s substandard bridges over the next two years.
“We wanted to target more dollars to maintaining the system we have - as opposed to building new roads, new bridges, new parts of the system,” Phil Berger said.
The Senate would kill state funds for two rail transit projects in Charlotte. That could set a precedent for Triangle officials who are counting on the state to cover 25 percent of construction costs for planned light rail and commuter train projects that could cost a total of $3.5 billion over the next 15 years.
“This would hurt Charlotte in the very near term and, if it were to stand, would hurt us in the Triangle, clearly,” said David King, general manager of Triangle Transit.
But Sen. Richard Stevens of Cary, one of the chief budget writers, warned against reading too much into the current plan. He said he would not rule out prospects for Triangle rail transit funding in future years.
Given the choice between building train tracks and replacing worn-out bridges, I’m definitely choosing the latter. The mass infrastructure built in the 50’s and 60’s, and even in the 70’, is deteriorating fast. If we don’t allocate the monies to replace these structures now, it’s going to cost even more in the future and there is a chance that the bridges could get to the point of having to be closed even before replacement due to this deterioration if simply repairing the existing bridges does not make them safe to drive on.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/05/25/1223172/senate-puts-forth-its-budget.html[/quote]
I do agree with that view, over the past decades infrastructure maintenance has been vastly overlooked.
I wonder what this funding decision would do to the federal money ear marked for the light rail?
[quote=“Charlotte2002, post:79, topic:24357”][quote=“X-49er, post:78, topic:24357”]
The transportation budget would cancel two toll road and bridge projects and block state funding for rail transit in Charlotte as part of an effort to reserve extra money for road maintenance and bridge repair.
Fiscal researchers said the Senate plan would provide enough money to replace 36 percent of North Carolina’s substandard bridges over the next two years.
“We wanted to target more dollars to maintaining the system we have - as opposed to building new roads, new bridges, new parts of the system,” Phil Berger said.
The Senate would kill state funds for two rail transit projects in Charlotte. That could set a precedent for Triangle officials who are counting on the state to cover 25 percent of construction costs for planned light rail and commuter train projects that could cost a total of $3.5 billion over the next 15 years.
“This would hurt Charlotte in the very near term and, if it were to stand, would hurt us in the Triangle, clearly,” said David King, general manager of Triangle Transit.
But Sen. Richard Stevens of Cary, one of the chief budget writers, warned against reading too much into the current plan. He said he would not rule out prospects for Triangle rail transit funding in future years.
Given the choice between building train tracks and replacing worn-out bridges, I’m definitely choosing the latter. The mass infrastructure built in the 50’s and 60’s, and even in the 70’, is deteriorating fast. If we don’t allocate the monies to replace these structures now, it’s going to cost even more in the future and there is a chance that the bridges could get to the point of having to be closed even before replacement due to this deterioration if simply repairing the existing bridges does not make them safe to drive on.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/05/25/1223172/senate-puts-forth-its-budget.html[/quote]
I do agree with that view, over the past decades infrastructure maintenance has been vastly overlooked.
I wonder what this funding decision would do to the federal money ear marked for the light rail?[/quote]
agreed as well and very likley gone