Lake Norman Transportation Commission meets again Thursday, Jan. 14, in Davidson to finalize plans for a planned four-day workshop later this month that will bring a panel of national planning experts here to help devise strategies for helping the region promote economic growth. Thursday’s meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at Davidson Town Hall. Details about the workshop, with experts from the Urban Land Institute, and a full agenda for Thursday’s meeting, are below. Read the full story

Engineers from the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s two area districts will be at the monthly meeting of the Lake Norman Transportation Commission tonight (Wednesday, Nov. 11), at 6:30 p.m. at Huntersville Town Hall.
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A lack of funding and has changed the picture. How will it affect hopes for commuter rail north of Charlotte?

The head of Charlotte Area Transit System said Thursday a long-range plan the system’s board approved in 2006 is “no longer financially feasible” and will need to be reviewed and updated in the coming months. Read the full story

Updated Thursday, 9/24/09, 5:13 p.m.
Mayors from north Mecklenburg spoke out at Wednesday night’s Metropolitan Transit Commission in Charlotte in hopes of keeping alive the North Corridor Commuter Rail Line, which they fear is being lost in the shuffle as Charlotte leaders push for other projects. Read the full story

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

With prospects dimming for commuter rail north of Charlotte anytime soon, officials in north Mecklenburg and south Iredell on Monday endorsed a new strategy aimed at re-shaping the debate over regional transit planning. The joint statement by Davidson and three other towns comes on the eve of Wednesday’s Metropolitan Transit Commission meeting, where area mayors hope to counter what they fear is MTC’s shift away from the north corridor.

The statement by the Lake Norman Transportation Commission is part of stepped up efforts to save the proposed 25-mile rail line from limbo. Read the full story

Regional group also forms an I-77 task force

Lake Norman Transportation Commission plans a pair of meetings in the coming weeks to look at regional transportation planning and prospects for improvements on I-77.

The group, which includes representatives from Davidson, Mooresville, Cornelius and Huntersville, was formed about 7 months ago. So far, it has studied and issued resolutions in favor of improvements on N.C. 73 in Huntersville and supporting roadwork promised by the developer of the Augustalee mixed-use project in Cornelius.

“I-77 is a logical next issue for us,” Carroll Gray, executive director of the commission, said Friday. Read the full story

The Lake Norman Transportation Commission voted unanimously Wednesday night to endorse I-77 widening and other road improvements associated with the proposed half-billion-dollar Augustalee mixed-use development in Cornelius.

In a 2 1/2 hour meeting at Mooresville town hall, the commission also agreed in principle on a compensation package that will keep executive director Carroll Gray for another 12 months.

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