Encourage Leaders.
We rely on a 100-year-old model to fund our transportation network. The current model is NOT allowing us to invest and maintain our transportation system. Due to a lack of investment and resources, our roads are deteriorating, unsafe, and congested, costing NC drivers $3.4 BILLION each year and too many lives.
Facts:
NC has the 2nd largest highway & ferry system in the US.
Miles of Roadway
Bridges & Culverts
Ferry Routes
Economic Impact
North Carolina’s economic success, now and in the future, is tied to how efficiently we can move people and products.
For every $1 Billion invested in transportation infrastructure, North Carolina generates…
A well-funded transportation network means recovery, resiliency, and security for North Carolina’s economy and the people whose jobs depend on it.
Kelly Fuller
President, NC Chamber Foundation
Potential Solutions
We encourage North Carolina’s elected leaders to build legislative solutions that modernize, stabilize and diversify North Carolina’s transportation funding mechanisms.
Research & Reports
The North Carolina Chamber, the NC FIRST Commission, and the Regional Transportation Alliance conducted research and produced reports offering state legislators potential solutions to modernize and diversify our revenue streams to create a sustainable funding structure for North Carolina’s transportation system.
