A new map was released with proposed stops for Charlotte’s future commuter rail line, and there’s a nearly six-mile gap between Uptown Charlotte and the next station. People in historically Black neighborhoods along the tracks are hoping it’s not too late to change that.
Channel 9’s Hunter Sáenz spoke with neighbors after city leaders voted against adding a Red Line stop at the corner of Craighead Road and North Graham Street. The surrounding neighborhoods want a stop there, and they say without one, they’ll be left behind.
If you go to the area right at Craighead and Graham, you’re surrounded by industrial businesses. But less than a mile away, you’re in Derita Park; go a mile more and you enter Hidden Valley.
“There’s hundreds of people who live there,” said Monifa Drayton, who lives in Charlotte’s North End…