Monday marks a major deadline for the future of Charlotte’s proposed Red Line commuter rail service. It’s the last day city leaders can buy the tracks — and the deal with Norfolk Southern is well underway as of Monday morning.
The city of Charlotte voted last Tuesday to acquire the railroad tracks and support a sales tax to fund the purchase for the project. Only one member of the Charlotte City Council, Tariq Bokhari, voted against the two resolutions. One of the measures was in support of the sales tax while the other approved the actual purchase of the necessary O-Line tracks from Southern Norfolk.
“The thought of raising taxes in our current economy on the heels of just having raised taxes,” Bokhari said at the meeting. “It doesn’t mean that that is not something we can contemplate. It just means we have to be precise.”
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