CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – The 1-cent transit tax to fund wide-reaching transportation improvements in Mecklenburg County passed by a narrow margin Tuesday night.

Local voters approved the referendum with 52.1 percent for it. The funding will be dispersed between light rail expansion (40 percent), road-related improvement (40 percent) and bus improvements (20 percent), and creates a new transit authority for the county.

The white whale of the initiative was the creation of the Red Line, which is currently slated to provide a commuter rail between uptown and Davidson, and eventually into Iredell County.

The vast majority of precincts in Charlotte were in favor of the landmark legislation, known as the P.A.V.E. Act. However, there were several suburban areas around Mecklenburg Co

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