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Charlotte traffic got this bad because the region added residents, freight, development, and driving demand faster than it built a safe and connected transportation network.<\/p>\n

It is not one bad merge, one slow driver, or one construction project. Charlotte has a growth problem, a freight problem, a road-design problem, a distraction problem, and an accountability problem occupying the same limited space.<\/p>\n

After calling Charlotte my hometown for more than forty-three years and practicing law in Mecklenburg County for more than thirty-four, I have watched the Queen City grow from a large Southern town into a major American metro. That growth created jobs, wealth, neighborhoods, restaurants, sports, and opportunity. It also put far more cars and trucks onto a network that still funnels much of the region through a handful of roads.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte traffic got this bad because the region added residents, freight, development, and driving demand faster than it built a safe and connected transportation network. It is not one bad merge, one slow driver, or one construction project. 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