The head of the Federal Transit Administration is coming to Charlotte after the city’s transit system spent much of 2025 in the spotlight for a pair of violent incidents.
FTA Administrator Marcus Molinaro will be in Charlotte on Jan. 16, interim Charlotte Area Transit System CEO Brent Cagle announced at a Wednesday meeting of the Metropolitan Public Transportation Authority.
The visit comes months after the fatal August stabbing of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on the city’s LYNX Blue Line light rail. Zarutska’s killing brought a wave of scrutiny to Charlotte’s transit system, and the attention was renewed after another stabbing on the light rail in December…