North Carolina is one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, Tata said, so we will need more and more roads and other transportation improvements over the coming decade. But we will have less and less money to provide these needs. On the video screen behind him, a blue arrow slanted upward to show 1.3 million more residents expected by 2023. A downward arrow marked an expected $1.7 billion drop in state and federal transportation tax revenues
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