This is public transportation. It is called the Lynx Rapid Transit Services. It services Charlotte, NC. It was a star project of the now Governor McCrory when he was mayor of Charlotte. It was built with $200 million federal dollars secured by the Late Senator Jessie Helms.

McCrory had a easy job as Mayor of Charlotte. The UNC system has a huge university there and one third of the work force in Charlotte is college educated.

The North Carolina Panthers are there.

I think Seimens has a manufacturing plant there. They hire engineers coming out of UNC-Charlotte.

McCrory benefited by public transportation to pay Charlotte's bills. He was able to get Mecklenburg County to pay a half cent in taxes into the treasury of Charlotte for the public transportation system within Charlotte. It was a foregone conclusion it benefited the people within Mecklenburg in their commute. 

Mecklenburg tried to repeal the transportation tax at one point and McCrory was able to fight to keep it successfully.

Everyone that voted for McCrory as Governor wanted him to do the same thing for North Carolina he did for Charlotte. They never bothered to realize exactly what was going on in Charlotte to make McCrory a star performer. Fourteen years of taxing the county and taking federal monies while hosting football and steam turbines.

Now. 

The Democrats have been trying to put public transportation across the state of North Carolina to facilitate an economy for decades now. Maybe it might happen if McCrory gets Obama Money to do it.