Marshall Drive and a portion of Old Dowd Road near the Charlotte Douglas International Airport will be permanently closed as of Wednesday due to construction associated with a taxiway project. Airport officials say detour signs will be in place and a new bridge connecting to Wilkinson Boulevard will be completed during the closure. Visitors to the Airport Overlook will be affected by the closures, as well as commuters who use Old Dowd Road to Marshall Drive to access Wilkinson Boulevard.
Woody is a Charlotte native who came to WFAE from the world of NASCAR where he was host of NASCAR Today for MRN Radio as well as a pit reporter, turn announcer and host of the NASCAR Live pre race show for Cup Series races. Before that, he was a news anchor at WBT radio in Charlotte, a traffic reporter, editor of The Charlotte Observer’s University City Magazine, News/Sports Director at WEGO-AM in Concord and a Swiss Army knife in local cable television. His first job after graduating from Appalachian State University was news reporter at The Daily Independent in Kannapolis. Along the way he’s covered everything from murder trials and a national political convention to high school sports and minor league baseball.