NCDOT has created a Transportation Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Group (TIPAG) the purpose of which is to identify opportunities for transportation stakeholders, local governments, and the Department to work more effectively together in the planning and implementing of long-range plans including land use and transportation. Click here for the Power Point on […]
Link to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report identifying options to enhance the MPO transportation planning process.
Today Meenal attended the Governor’s Crime Commission meeting, held in Raleigh.
Chairman Scott Thomas began the meeting by asking for a moment of silence to commemorate 9/11.
After this, he recognized Thomas Caves, Special Assistant to Secretary Reuben Young of the NC Department of Crime Control and Public Safety to give a legislative […]
21 Contracts Totaling More Than $50 Million Awarded for Highway Projects Across North Carolina
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that 21 contracts totaling $50.8 million have been awarded for highway and bridge projects across North Carolina, including eight projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The contracts were awarded by the N.C. […]
N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition to Host Urban Transportation Forum, “Metro Cities in the Pole Position”
The North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition announces its first-ever statewide transportation forum “Metro Cities in the Pole Position” on August 27 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord. White House Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs David Agnew and N.C. Department of Transportation […]
N.C.’s metro mayors say stimulus money divided unequally
By Jennifer Moxley
View the original article and video from News 14 Carolina
CONCORD, N.C. — For the first time, mayors across North Carolina were in the same room to discuss how the state spends money on roads.
Gov. Beverly Perdue signed into law Thursday a bill that would […]
Sign the petition to help change the way our state's transportation funds are allocated! The Yadkin River Bridge is in desperate need of repair, but can't get the appropriate funding. North Carolina's method for allocating transportation funds is outdated and in need of change. Watch the video below to learn more.
Business lobbyists urged members of a legislative study committee to try to clean up what they say are haphazard, unfair local business privilege taxes.
HB148- Congestion Relief/Intermodal Transport Fund
Lawmakers gave final approval late Monday, August 10, 2009, to legislation that would allow Triangle and Triad counties to raise the sales tax to pay for light rail and more buses. The House voted 73 to 40 to let Wake, Orange, Durham, Guilford and Forsyth counties boost the sales tax by […]
