Red Line
The Red Line is a planned 25-mile (40 km) commuter rail line, to be constructed along existing Norfolk Southern tracks and intended to provide service to the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius and Davidson in northern Mecklenburg County. The line will be serviced by Diesel Multiple Unit trains, and the southern terminus will be the proposed Gateway Station in Uptown Charlotte. Completion of the line will cost an estimated $456 million. By June 2011, the project had been 90% designed and an operating agreement had been signed with Norfolk Southern, but the project lacked nearly 80% of the needed funds to begin construction. On October 17, 2012, the N.C. DOT, the Red Line Task Force and CATS requested Norfolk Southern to conduct a study of the Red Line concept. As the Red Line would utilize the NS O-Line between Charlotte and Mooresville, the study would determine if and how both freight and passenger services could use the same line while allowing normal freight services to continue. At a meeting of the task force on October 24, it was estimated the study could be initiated by late January 2013 and completed by early 2014, after which further feasibility studies and projections could be made.
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