anthony foxx? blaine ruthemeyer? >> thank you for everything you're dng1o ca you're doing in charlotte in order to help prepare the city? are you bringing in taxi cabs from other cities or other employees from other areas? >> good question. we will use about 250 buses to bring our delegates in and out of the central business district for convention actime oesf thos local. some of them will be coming from other places. we actually got dispensation from the general assembly to allow us to use black cars and that sort of thing fromr states to come in and be part of that piece with helping us with the logistics. we have a lot of assets in charlotte and looking forward tow those assets off from a travel standpoint. >> yes, sir? >> bill fulton from smart growt. mayor foxx you spoke eloquently about your downtown and the light rail, your predecessor, a republican, did the same. mayor buckhorn expressed the idea showing off tampa's urban renaissance might actually get a bunch of republicans excited about cities, and neverth

kind of like that. >> questions for mayor anthony foxx a shot? >> we heard about the other mirror about assets he is bringing to tell about. can you give us an example of what you're doing in charlotte to help prepare? are you bringing in taxicabs from other cities or other employees from other areas? >> we will use about 250 buses to bring our delegates in and out of the central business district for the convention activities. some of those buses will be local, some will be coming from other places. we went and got dispensation from the general assembly to allow us to use black cars and that sort of thing from other states to come in and be part of helping us with that piece of the logistics. we have a lot of assets already in charlotte, and we are looking forward to the ability to show those assets off from a travel standpoint. >> yes, sir. >> mayor box, you spoke eloquently about your downtown and the like a prayrail. predecessor did the same. meier buckhorn expressed the idea showing off tampa's renaissance might get a bunch of republicans ex

. >> mayor anthony foxx, one thing you are known for his bringing more people downtown. the you are trying to make charlotte or transit family. tell us about that. >> charlotte is actually a student of what's happened in a lot of southeastern cities. where you are starting to see migration from other places around the country. population growth even during the recession. one of the challenges that happens in an auto dependent area is that you start to get this effect. about 20 years ago, charlotte really became aggressive and trying to adopt transportation strategies and they also had other strategies attached. light rail is a part of that. we have a 9-mile light rail that runs to the south. we hope to extend the later this year. we are aligning residential development alongside the lines by rezoning the property so that that piece of business can be dealt with and developers can do what they do best, which is to put up units. we have seen $1.4 billion of investment along the south corridor line, which exist today. we are going to try to do everything it and then we can