Pay no heed, Charlotteans, to transplants who say we have it a lot better than they did when it comes to congestion on our highways. Proof came this week that stretches of our interstates rank among the worst.
The Charlotte area has three of the top truck bottlenecks in the U.S., a national study revealed. Although the study called it “truck bottlenecks,” frustrated car drivers are included in the congestion, too.
Interstate 77, in Huntersville near Lake Norman, is the worst of the three, ranking 31st on the annual list of “Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks” by the American Transportation Research Institute. Founded in 1954, the institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in Atlanta, Minneapolis and Sacramento, California…