This Week at NCDOT: Regional Project Funding and Litter Sweep

RALEIGH – The following are highlights from this week at the N.C. Department of Transportation. The stories below are also featured in NCDOT Now, the department’s weekly newscast.

Regional Project Funding
Many communities across North Carolina will see key improvements coming to their area over the next decade due to $2.7 billion in funding from the State’s Transportation Improvement Program. One hundred thirty eight regional projects were designated to receive funding for construction.

These include:

• 115 highway projects with $2.4 billion in funding;
• 7 rail projects for $96 million;
• 3 ferry projects for $26 million; and
• 3 transit projects to be completed for $191 million.

The Strategic Transportation Investments law established a data-driven process for ranking transportation projects. Scores are based on safety, congestion reduction, cost-benefit analysis and other criteria.  

View regional projects here.

Fall Litter Sweep
The Department’s Adopt-A-Highway program kicks off its annual Fall Litter Sweep on Sept. 15, and it will run through Sept. 29.

Volunteers are provided cleanup supplies such as trash bags, gloves and safety vests from their local NCDOT county maintenance office. Last year’s fall sweep removed 38 tons of litter from roads and highways.

To get family, friends and church or community groups signed up to help, visit this link.

Panther Trains
Carolina Panthers fans can skip traffic and paying for parking by letting NC By Train get them to Charlotte for 1 p.m. games this season.

Available dates:

• Sept. 23 – Cincinnati Bengals
• Oct. 7 – New York Giants
• Oct. 28 – Baltimore Ravens
• Nov. 4 – Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Nov. 25 – Seattle Seahawks
• Dec. 23 – Atlanta Falcons
  

Fans can board train 73 at any of the seven stations between Raleigh and Charlotte to arrive at 9:40 a.m. and return on train 78 which leaves at 7 p.m. Passengers should request a transit pass while on board to seamlessly travel from the Charlotte train station to the Transportation Center before and after the game.

To buy tickets for the Panthers train, visit NCByTrain.org.