Here’s a business-focused wrap-up of reasons no one should count the proposed commuter rail line to North Mecklenburg as dead. Business Today online writes “Economic Development Prospects Put North Line Rail Back on Track.” Although there’s not much new news in it, it’s a good wrap-up of why the North Line (a.k.a. the Red Line) remains an excellent plan, and one that the business community should get behind.
Now if they could just wire up some of that federal money for commuter rail …. That’s been the sticky wicket all along. The Bush administration’s transit-funding rules were written in such a way as to rule out virtually all proposed commuter rail transit, including this project. Those rules are changing. Stay tuned.