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Property owners suffer under Map Act
NC Lawyers Weekly ran a story (subscription required) a couple days ago about roughly 800 Forsyth County residents in the designated corridor for the Winston-Salem Northern Beltway project. This map...
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Could NC’s controversial Map Act be on its way out?
Rep. Rayne Brown The House Transportation Committee on Tuesday took the first step toward making the Map Act history by giving it a favorable report. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Rayne Brown,...
View ArticleMap Act video shows deteriorated property
As the date for oral arguments on North Carolina’s Map Act approaches in the N.C. Supreme Court, plaintiffs attorneys have released a video showing a neighborhood affected by the act. The video shows...
View ArticleSupreme Court Affirms Compensation for Victims of MAP Act
The MAP Act has been a thorn in the side of North Carolina’s property rights laws since it was enacted in the late ‘80s. A recent article in the Fayetteville Observer quotes the writings of JLF’s...
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A unique definition of dysfunction
The N&O opines today that the Wake County Board of Commissioners is “dysfunctional.” That is a strong charge; what, oh what, is the matter? It’s the Republicans, see. They have these “hidebound”...
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Rail Consensus Denialism
My newsletter explains what it is and why it now threatens Wake County. The main point is this: Six different transportation experts — some advocates for light rail, and some skeptics of it — have...
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How market forces are obsoleting central planners’ expensive light-rail dreams
Randal O’Toole writes in The Wall Street Journal today about the short-sighted folly of cities — such as Nashville, San Antonio, and Tampa — planning to drop billions of dollars into light rail to...
View ArticleCharting a New Course for Transportation Planning in North Carolina
Transportation planning in North Carolina took a wrong turn in 1987 when the General Assembly approved a controversial piece of legislation known as the Map Act. The Map Act gave the North Carolina...
View ArticleA Fork in the Road for Transportation Funding
Governments cannot realistically take enough money from citizens to pay for all the repairs and construction people say we need. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimated an unmet need of $1.1...
View ArticleThe End of the Road for the Map Act
At long last, the North Carolina General Assembly has finally repealed a controversial piece of legislation known as the Map Act. As I explained in a previous Legal Update: Transportation planning in...
View ArticleThe NCDOT budget is full of cracks, potholes, and detours
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has long had the worst budget in state government. The agency receives appropriations in a year, counts each dollar based on general purposes,...
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