{"id":1391088,"date":"2023-08-21T23:14:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1391088\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:14:22","slug":"efforts-underway-to-ease-charlotte-rush-hour-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1391088\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts underway to ease Charlotte rush-hour traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6L0qKo9aiWo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom South Charlotte to Huntersville, there&#8217;s concern over bumper-to-bumper traffic that commuters say increases their ride by 30 minutes to an hour at peak travel times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s just a lot of traffic we\u2019ve noticed, especially, the last couple of years,&#8221; Gene Lakey said.<\/p>\n<p>He lives near Charlotte Douglas International Airport and said getting into Uptown can be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness travel times, try to avoid that or get ahead of it or, you know, delay and come after it,&#8221; Lakey said.<\/p>\n<p>WCNC Charlotte asked state and local transportation leaders what&#8217;s being done to clear the congestion.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: https:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/article\/news\/local\/charlotte-working-to-fix-traffic-congestion\/275-c453f60b-65fd-4f58-abd0-5af2cb1e67a3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From South Charlotte to Huntersville, there&#8217;s concern over bumper-to-bumper traffic that commuters say i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1391089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,255456,799058,799054,799055,799059,799061,799060,799057,36272,799056],"class_list":{"0":"post-1391088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-charlotte","9":"tag-charlotte-nc","10":"tag-charlotte-north-carolina","11":"tag-charlotte-rush-hour","12":"tag-charlotte-traffic","13":"tag-interstate-77","14":"tag-interstate-85","15":"tag-rush-hour","16":"tag-rush-hour-traffic","17":"tag-traffic","18":"tag-traffic-jam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}