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A. Taxi Service Carolina Ave, Shelby, NC B. Waterways & Blueways 14With the cost of owning personal transportation AA United Cab (704) 482-7000 220 S Washington A blueway or water trail is a water path or trail rising, more residents of the GCLMPO St, Shelby, NC that is developed with launch points, camping Metropolitan Planning Area may turn to taxi East Marion Cab Company (704) 487-6200 211 E locations and points of interest for canoeists, service as a major means of transportation. Marion St, Shelby, NC paddle boarders and kayakers. Blueways are The GCLMPO Metropolitan Planning Area has typically developed by state, county or local multiple taxi cab service companies. Rates are Lincoln County municipalities to encourage recreation, ecological regulated by the City of Gastonia and the three Yellow Cab of Lincolnton 2380 Industrial Park Rd, education and preservation of wildlife resources. County governments. These companies offer Lincolnton (704) 748-1313 local and long distance service. A number of the Specialized Transport 2380 Industrial Park Rd, Developed as a Carolina Thread Trail project in taxi companies also run shuttle service to the Lincolnton (704) 735-5676 Gaston County, the South Fork River Blueway Charlotte Douglas Airport. has a number of boat launches located along its Residents in Gastonia who chose taxi service as course. The northern most put-in is located in Gaston County a means of transportation are protected under Spencer Mountain and is maintained by Catawba Yellow Cab Co of Gastonia 913 W Franklin Blvd, municipal codes which state: Lands Conservancy. This access is by permit Gastonia (704) 867-6391 only. A permit can be requested by contacting Metro Cab 1104 E Ozark Ave, Gastonia (704) 852- a) No person owning or operating a taxi cab within the Catawba Lands Conservancy. The access is 4147 the city limits may charge fares in excess of those located at 200 Stanley-Spencer Mountain Road in BLUE CABS OF NC 543 Cox Rd, Gastonia (704) 674- prescribed in the schedule of taxicab fares adopted Spencer Mountain, NC. 4457 by resolution of the council, a copy of which shall be AAA Taxi 707 Grover St, Gastonia (704) 861-0855 on file in the clerk’s office and shall also be available Other available launch locations include: AAA Taxi 815 E Park Ave, Gastonia (704) 861-0855 from the administrator. South Fork River Park (Gaston County Parks and Cook’s Cab Company 217 Allison Ave, Gastonia Recreation) (704) 868-8181 In order to better prepare for future growth 4185 Mountain View Street, Gastonia, NC City Cab Company Gastonia (704) 867-4620 projections, providing additional access for R. Y. McAden Take-out in McAdenville (Catawba City Cab Company 720 W Airline Ave, Gastonia residents to taxi service will need to be addressed. Lands Conservancy) (704) 867-4620 Providing taxi cab vouchers for qualifying Goat Island Park (Town of Cramerton) residents may be an option looked into for the Greenplace Road, Cramerton, NC Cleveland County future. Riverside Park (Town of Cramerton) Weaver’s Taxi (704) 487-9193 521 Carolina Ave, Riverside Drive, Cramerton, NC Shelby, NC Mountain Island Park (City of Mount Holly Parks Your City Taxi Company (704) 487-9158 518 & Recreation) Chapter 14 Other Modes 14-1 the way forward: 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan

River Street Park (City of Mount Holly Parks & Recreation) 2009 called the Spencer Mountain River Access. The trip or along the boundaries of Rutherford, Polk and Cleveland N River St, Mt Holly, NC down to the R.Y. McAden River Access take out point is Counties in North Carolina; and Cherokee, York, Union, Tuckaseege Park (City of Mount Holly Parks & Recreation) approximately 2 hours, 5.5 miles. Chester, Fairfield, Newberry and Richland Counties in Sports Lane, Mt Holly, NC South Carolina. In North Carolina, the river is dammed River stream features vary from slow moving water to form Lake Lure; Principal tributaries of the Broad Catawba River with a few Class I/II rapids where rock ledges have been River include the Green, Second Broad and First Broad The Catawba River is a tributary of the Wateree River carved from the river bottom to concentrated rapids at (Cleveland County) Rivers in North Carolina. in North Carolina and South Carolina. The river is approximate mile 3.5. There is a dam approximately 5.5 approximately 220 miles (350km) long. It rises in the miles down the river - users must exit the river on the Appalachian Mountains and drains into the Piedmont right (river right) before the dam. and is impounded through a series of reservoirs for flood Those continuing downstream The GCLMPO will promote and support other blueway projects control and hydroelectricity. The river is named after the can use the Adam Springs Portage along the Broad, First Broad, Catawba and South Fork Catawba Catawba tribe of Native Americans. They were known in on the left. Downstream from Rivers in Gaston and Cleveland Counties. their own language as the Kawahcatawbas, “the people the dam, paddlers will encounter of the river”. the headwaters of Lake Wylie Figure 14-1: Catawba River Chain which is slower moving water It rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western McDowell and a number of rich wetlands County, North Carolina, approximately 20 miles (30 along the stream banks. km) east of Asheville. It flows ENE, forming, along with the Linville River, Lake James. It then passes north of The South Fork Catawba River Morganton, then southeast through the Lake Norman is home to a variety of wildlife, reservoir. From Lake Norman it flows south, passing east of including great blue herons, Gaston County and west of Charlotte, then flowing through osprey, bald eagles, and deer. the Mountain Island Lake and Lake Wylie reservoirs, where Users who access the river from it forms approximately 10 miles (15km) of the border the Spencer Mountain River between North Carolina and South Carolina. It flows into Access will paddle through some northern South Carolina, passing Rock Hill, then through of the most ecologically diverse Fishing Creek Reservoir near Great Falls, and then into the lands in our region, many of Lake Wateree reservoir, approximately 30 miles (50 km) which are permanently protected northeast of Columbia, where it becomes the Wateree by the Conservancy. River. The Broad River and First South Fork Catawba River Broad River in Cleveland The South Fork Catawba River is west of the Catawba County River and merges with the Catawba at Lake Wylie near the The Broad River originates in the South Carolina boarder. The river offers miles of natural Blue Ridge Mountains of eastern landscapes, with great fishing and paddling opportunities. Buncombe County, North Catawba Lands Conservancy opened a canoe and kayak Carolina1-2 and flows generally Chapter 14 access point on the South Fork Catawba River in May south-southeastwardly, through Other Modes 14-2