Full Steam Ahead For Streetcar
The Mecklenburg Union Metropolitan Planning Organization paved the way this week for Charlotte’s streetcar project to roll down the tracks, voting to amend its long-term 2035 transportation plan to allow the streetcar to leapfrog other projects in order to secure federal funding.
The MUMPO’s decision was the last hurdle that needed to be cleared for the streetcar project to move forward. Now the city just has to find a few million dollars to actually fund operating costs for the first 1.5-mile leg of the project, slated to start construction later this year or early next year. Oh, and there’s also that minor detail of finding upwards of $450 million to fund construction for the full streetcar line, planned for 10 miles.
Other than that, no problems; keep on chugging down the tracks into fiscal oblivion.
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