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Thursday, March 5, 2009
News And the Easter Bunny's dyeing eggs right now, too
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Charlotte, NC: One of the top 20 largest cities in the United States, featuring Swiss cheese roads and an interstate interchange, I-485 at I-77 on the southside, so poorly planned even Ghandi would give his fellow travelers the finger during rush hour traffic.
Road-building decisions will be based on data and North Carolina's long-term transportation goals, not whether a board member has pushed a project, new state Transportation Secretary Gene Conti said Wednesday.Following through on Gov. Bev Perdue's demand that politics be taken out of road construction choices, Conti and his chief deputies rolled out a new process that seeks more input from the public and accountability for completing jobs and meeting goals.
Perdue ordered members in January to stop voting on individual road projects. Over the years, some members have been accused of placing too much influence on getting roads on the state's transportation funding blueprint or projects built to benefit themselves.
Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer article here.
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