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State-By-State Searchable Database
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North Carolina
Capital: Raleigh
Population: 8,186,268
Major Metropolitan Areas: Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Raleigh, Winston-Salem
Federal Transportation Spending: $1,086,627,000 (U.S. Census Bureau 2002)

 
General Ballot Measure Information

State Ballot Process
No citizen-initiated state ballot measure process in North Carolina

State Election Site: http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/

County & City Information
Contact your county elections office for more information: http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/about/countyoff.htm

Ballot measure information
http://www.iandrinstitute.org/North%20Carolina.htm

Additional ballot measure information
http://www.ballot.org/states/nc.html

 
Specific Ballot Measure Information
 
Initiative Year Community/Region
for initiative
Type Of Measure Ballot Date Result
2002 Charlotte Bond proposal 11/5/2002
Description
City Council is considering postponing a $239 million bond referendum to pay for local streets, $50 million for light rail, sidewalks, and affordable housing

Initiative Year Community/Region
for initiative
Type Of Measure Ballot Date Result
2000 Greensboro Bond proposal 11/7/2000 Parks failed - 61% to 39%; Streets, public transportation, fire stations and libraries passed - 70% to 30%.
Description
Approval of $149 million bonding for various parks, streets, transportation and other civic projects.

 
Outreach/Contact Information
 
Advocacy Groups
North Carolina Public Transit Association http://www.nctransit.org/
Citizens for Efficient Mass Transit http://home.adelphia.net/~bablum/cemt.htm
THINK Transit http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/2001abstracts/rathgeber.html
Rockingham Public Access Transportation (no website)
Rail Passenger Group
Carolinas Association for Passenger Trains http://www.trainweb.org/capt/
State DOT
http://www.ncdot.org/
Transit Agencies & MPOs
Charlotte CATS http://164.109.57.49/apps/cats/home.htm
Durham DATA http://www.ci.durham.nc.us/departments/works/data.cfm
Greensboro GTA http://www.ci.greensboro.nc.us/gdot/public_trans/
Raleigh CAT http://www.raleigh-nc.org/transit/
Winston-Salem WSTA http://www.cityofws.org/DOT/wsta.html
 
Media Information
 
Newspaper(s)
Charlotte Observer http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/
Raleigh News & Observer http://www.news-observer.com/
Winston-Salem Journal http://www.journalnow.com/
Greensboro News-Record http://www.news-record.com/
Asheville Citizen-Times http://citizen-times.com/
Radio Television
WFAE NPR - Charlotte http://www.wfae.org/wfae/index.cfm
WBT News/Talk - Chester http://www.wbt.com/
WSTP News/Talk - Salisbury http://www.1490wstp.com/
WBTV CBS - Charlotte http://www.wbtv.com/
WSOC ABC - Charlotte http://www.wsoctv.com/
WCNC NBC - Charlotte http://www.nbc6.com/
 
Other Resources
 

STPP State Page: http://www.transact.org/states/default.asp?state=northcarolina

APTA State Page (Info. on transit agencies): http://www.apta.com/links/state_local/nc.cfm