Latest North Carolina Department of Transportation Stories
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fiscal responsibility, community quality of life, and a commitment to a better environment are three reasons state departments of transportation are successfully implementing a variety of sustainable practices and programs across the country. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121022/DC96742LOGO) Leaner and Greener: Sustainability at Work in Transportation issued by the American Association of State Highway and...
DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Questions by concerned citizens ranging from longtime homeowners to business people came fast and furious as the NC Eminent Domain Law Firm hosted an informational meeting regarding the NC Department of Transportation's massive and controversial East End Connector. Last week's event at the Durham Convention Center drew a diverse crowd of property owners in the path of the $182 million project, deemed by the NCDOT to be one of its...
WILMINGTON, N.C., Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Carolina Department of Transportation is contacting property owners who will be affected by a road widening planned for North and South Kerr Avenue between Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Patrick Avenue in Wilmington, North Carolina. The NC Eminent Domain Law Firm has been meeting with property owners across the state, and will now meet with property owners in Wilmington, NC to discuss their case in these eminent domain...
MURRAY, Utah, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Systech has signed a contract with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to develop the Motor Vehicle Inspection and Law Enforcement System (MILES). The contract starts immediately, and includes the design, development, implementation and maintenance of a statewide data management system that will provide a real-time link to over 6,000 private inspection stations conducting 7.7 million inspections per year. When fully...
• New 236,000 square feet facility will house the State’s departments of Transportation, Highway Patrol, National Guard and Emergency Management • Statewide Transportation Operations Center features IPTV and State-of-the-Art Audio Visual equipment • Intelligent visualization and collaboration will ensure synchronization of a full spectrum of disaster response capabilities Rockaway, NJ (PRWEB) March 15, 2012 Activu® Corporation, a leading provider of IP-based visualization and...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Are you in the path of the Monroe Bypass? Attorneys at the law firm of Horack Talley in Charlotte have begun representing homeowners and other property owners who will lose their property to the state of North Carolina. Through condemnation and eminent domain, the state will be taking property for the new Monroe Connector/Bypass project, a 19.7 mile toll road. The road will stretch from US 74 and I-485 in Mecklenburg County between...
Matt Shipman, North Carolina State UniversityThe so-called "superstreet" traffic design results in significantly faster travel times, and leads to a drastic reduction in automobile collisions and injuries, according to North Carolina State University researchers who have conducted the largest-ever study of superstreets and their impacts.Superstreets are surface roads, not freeways. It is defined as a thoroughfare where the left-hand turns from side streets are re-routed, as is traffic...
By MIKE SAEWITZ Chesapeake Emil Viola used to think wetlands were nothing but trouble . Swamps, bogs and wet fields spread over the region have cost him money and given him headaches. They also have proven lucrative for Viola, the developer who has emerged as the region's leader in a little-known industry that sprang out of environmental protection laws: wetlands restoration. Viola and his partners have invested millions to buy more than 5,000 acres of farmland and forest in South Hampton...
