• $894 average a month to own, maintain and operate a car in the USA • 360,000 households in Charlotte • 95% have one car • 79% have two cars That’s 6.7B spent a year by car consumers in Charlotte CDOT budget - $3.3 Billion We can afford transit.

Real talk: under remotely fair maps, the Democrats would have a very strong shot to flip the North Carolina state legislature, and would probably already control at least one chamber. But the Republican partisan gerrymander in place today is extremely aggressive and efficient. It makes it all but impossible for Democrats to flip the NC State Senate, and extremely difficult to flip the State House. (The latter isn't "impossible," just extremely difficult.) The North Carolina General Assembly as currently constituted is totally illegitimate. It does not reflect the voters' will in any meaningful way. Returning representative democracy to North Carolina will require flipping the State Supreme Court, where a Republican majority currently runs interference to protect their co-partisans in the legislature.

Downtowns and mixed use neighborhoods subsidize the suburbs.

@SenatorSawyer says the northern toll lanes have been a complete failure BUT she wrote a bill to force CRTPO to reconsider building the southern toll lanes? She also thinks Cintra will sale the northern tolls to the state when they’ve made like $400 mil & have a 45 year lease.

@CLTdevelopment your favorite paper does it again. What a joke. Tex-Mex = Harper’s

HereosCon with a hot restaurants image.

So after denying Charlotte a say over its own transportation infrastructure and trying to force through a plan that would materially harm many Charlotte communities, @SenatorSawyer and Republican leadership in the state legislature now want to to punish Charlotte yet again. These people hate Charlotte not only because of how the city votes, but also because of who lives there.

We hear the grocery tenant here will be a @traderjoes … thanks @CLTdevelopment

I’m not asking for the Amalfi Coast but do Americans really not deserve better from our built environment?

"The bike lane is empty."

This #Panthers WR core is young, fast, and strong. This will be a very interesting group to watch during training camp.

"Wait, what?" Yes - agriculture is the 18th largest industry in North Carolina by GDP. In 2024, it generated approximately $7 billion in value, on a statewide GDP of $844 billion. That includes not only row crops and livestock, but also all fisheries, forestry and logging. carolinaforward.org/news/wha…

English fans, this is how a world class stadium looks like Now go back to your shithole 🤏🏽

My politics is whatever this is. I will support governments who aspire to build climate resilient cities for people.

Scenes from Brooklyn Heights, the most beautiful neighborhood in America

Planning is NOT @SimCity. The more that planners treat their town as a game where they can put whatever THEY want, wherever THEY want, the worse the results will be.

You can only walk to one of these stadiums, so yes they are a bad aesthetic.

America needs more cottage courts

This is the kind of project that needs to be normalized in the USA, and could do wonders for our in-town neighborhoods. Why not start by building up Barnhard Manufacturing's 21-acre parcel in Plaza Midwood that they are rezoning.