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This drawing shows how the proposed Silver Line might eventually curve around the north side of uptown Charlotte toward 11th Street, with a station at Graham Street.
Charlotte Area Transit System s board has approved revisions to the proposed Lynx Silver Line light rail route, including extensions to Union and Gaston counties.
Wednesday s vote by the Metropolitan Transit Commission, which oversees CATS, means design work can continue on the 29-mile, east-west line through uptown Charlotte. It comes after months of public workshops that examined possible route alignments in six focus areas.
Charlotte Area Transit System The approved route map for the Silver Line shows how it connects Gaston County (left) with the airport, uptown and Matthews and Union County (lower right) .
/ Charlotte Douglas International Airport has started using electric shuttle buses, now CATS will test electric buses in 2022.
The Charlotte City Council gave the Charlotte Area Transit System the green light to buy 18 electric buses and equipment.
CATS will launch a 12- to 18-month pilot program with help from the Duke Energy subsidiary eTransEnergy, it said in a news release. Part of the testing will be to see how long the buses stay charged; there will also be workforce training.
“We are excited to have developed a blueprint for public-private partnership with CATS to first pilot, then move to full-scale transit fleet electrification,” said Greg Fields, vice president of eTransEnergy.
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