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Update: North Carolina legislature adjourns without addressing political meddling in transportation selection process

1 Oct 2015 | Posted by Steve Davis | 0 Comments | accountability, durham county, north carolina, orange county, performance measures, project selection, Raleigh, state transit funding, transit, transparency, wake county

The NC legislature adjourned their session without fixing a damaging cap on state funds intended for a Triangle area light rail project. Their widely decried actions circumvented a new bipartisan state process for evaluating transportation projects on the merits and awarding state funds to the best projects, intended to be free from political meddling.

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Politicians meddling with North Carolina’s shift to a merit-based process for choosing transportation projects

29 Sep 2015 | Posted by Steve Davis | 1 Comment | accountability, Chapel Hill, Durham, durham county, north carolina, orange county, performance measures, project selection, Raleigh, tranparency, wake county

Just two years after instituting a new process to choose transportation projects based on merit and award funds in a more transparent process intended to be free of political interference, a handful of North Carolina legislators reinserted politics back into the process in an attempt to stop a light rail project in the Raleigh-Durham metro area.

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