York Mayor Mike Fuesser drove to work at the Charlotte airport for more than 30 years, leaving before dawn each day to load bags onto planes before heading back home in the early afternoon. Find him at the airport today, and it’s a good bet he’s on vacation.
“I do not miss the commute one bit,” said Fuesser, whose one-way trip nearly doubled to an hour by the time he retired five years ago. “I really don’t even like going over there anymore.”
Communities throughout the Charlotte metro region have rapidly grown in recent years. So has the traffic, leading to longer and more challenging commutes…