I-77

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.

Residents and elected officials push NCDOT to examine possibility of I-77 tunnel near uptown; State sounds wary of cost — but could new sales tax money help?

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.

The contractor building the I-77 toll lanes north of Charlotte has completed work on the second of three sections, and is finishing work on the third.

State transportation officials say they need more time to plan how to convert highway shoulders into extra lanes at rush-hour on I-77 in north Mecklenburg…

Toll lanes have been under construction for nearly four years on I-77 from Charlotte to the Lake Norman area. Over the weekend, the northern 15 miles of…

Population has boomed in the Lake Norman area towns of Davidson, Huntersville and Cornelius. In 1990, the three towns had a total population of about…