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Commuter Options To Be Expanded During Business 40 Closure

Lane closures have been causing congestion on Business 40 during the preparation for a full highway shutdown this fall. DAVID FORD/WFDD

Commuters will have more choices during the reconstruction project that will close a portion of Business 40 beginning this fall.

According to a news release, new funding will enhance bus routes and schedules, refurbish buses, provide subsidized vanpools, and offer transit discounts.

The Federal Highway Administration and the North Carolina Department of Transportation will provide the money. It will be divided amongst the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation, The Winston-Salem Transit Authority and the City of Winston-Salem.

Mayor Allen Joines praised the effort to improve commuter options, and is urging all downtown workers to consider travel alternatives during the highway shutdown.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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