I-77

For the past four months, toll lanes have pushed new trains out of the headlines. The biggest transportation story in Charlotte has been the growing controversy over the planned Interstate 77 toll lanes from uptown to the South Carolina line.

Mecklenburg Commissioners are upset about the impacts of proposed I-77 express lanes on greenways, parks and streams.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation on Thursday said it would ask four contractors to consider alternative designs for the highway.

The N.C. Department of Transportation on Monday said it would delay issuing a Request for Proposals for new toll lanes on Interstate 77 until June.

A majority of Charlotte City Council members say they want the North Carolina Department of Transportation to pause planning work for the Interstate 77 express toll lanes from uptown to the South Carolina line.

West Charlotte residents are furious that the N.C. Department of Transportation this week said it plans to build elevated express toll lanes on Interstate 77 through uptown, and some protesters shouted down a Charlotte City Council member during a town hall Thursday night.

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Charlotte firefighters say a tractor trailer caught fire in north Charlotte early Friday morning on I-77 near W.T. Harris Boulevard. One person was transported to a hospital in Huntersville with minor injuries.

Charlotte-area transportation planners voted Wednesday to study whether it makes sense to partner with a private company to build toll lanes on Interstate 77 from uptown to the South Carolina state line.

Crews will close the Interstate 77 southbound bridge over the Catawba River at 9 p.m. May 6. It will remain closed for 17 days to replace to concrete road surface on the structure. Southbound traffic will share the northbound bridge, and what is typically four lanes of traffic each way will be cut down to two lanes.