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Austin voters approve $7.1B transit plan. Is Charlotte next?
November 10, 2020

When it comes to Charlotte’s transportation ambitions for the coming decades, the biggest question is simple: How will the city pay for it all?

A glimpse at Charlotte’s future from a piece of the past
November 2, 2020

It probably wasn’t the setting Charlotte planners would have picked to unveil their vision for the future: A parking lot off Independence Boulevard, acres of scarred asphalt surrounded by a tangle...

Making the development process more accessible
October 27, 2020

“I had no idea they were building that there.”

Charlotte expands bus rapid transit to a new corridor
September 9, 2020

Charlotte City Council voted Tuesday to expand a pilot program for bus-only lanes onto a second, longer stretch of local roadway, in what could be a model for a more extensive reworking of the...

Second Gambrell Faculty Fellows cohort explores economic mobility
August 31, 2020

Five faculty research teams have been selected for the second cohort of the Gambrell Faculty Fellows...