CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As South End growth has accelerated, so has the demand on infrastructure — particularly roads not originally built to carry thousands of cars per day.
Congestion is nothing new in Charlotte, but historically industrial South End has seen a wave of development — and higher density. And while South End has two main arteries, South Tryon Street and South Boulevard, smaller roads such as Tremont Avenue, Bland Street and Hawkins Street provide direct access for office towers and apartment buildings where low-slung warehouses once stood.
In 2017, the Charlotte Department of Transportation conducted a study of the South Boulevard and South Tryon Street corridors. As a result, the agency has several pedestrian and bicycle projects planned or underway for South End through 2020, including new pedestrian traffic signals, improvements at the South Tryon and College Street crosswalk, a pedestrian rail crossing behind Publix, and bike wayfinding and traffic-calming features along local streets that parallel parts of South Boulevard and South Tryon Street.
Amy Mitchell, a CDOT spokeswoman, said the city is focusing in South End on multimodal transit such as the transit line running through the neighborhood as well as a 4.5-mile walking and biking trail.
But that isn’t likely to solve the growing traffic problems.
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