Charlotte ranks 19th in traffic congestion
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Local commuters waited an average of 45 hours in traffic in 2002, making Charlotte the 19th-most congested city in the nation, according to a study by the Texas Transportation Institute.
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RALEIGH, NC - Traffic on Interstate 95 in Wilson and Nash counties picked up again early Monday after stretches of ice from the winter storm prompted hundreds of motorists to spend the night in hotel lobbies and a shelter.
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By Jefferson George, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 22--A collection of vastly different but similarly deliberate landowners has created a contrast in development along Interstate 85 in eastern Gaston County.
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By Brittany Wallman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Sep. 11--FORT LAUDERDALE -- What's it worth to save 22 seconds of drive time?   Not $32.5 million, city commissioners agreed last week.
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NEW YORK -- Two blocks south of Madison Square Garden, in a microcosm of what New Yorkers have been experiencing all week in this busy midtown neighborhood, a few feet of pavement told a tale of two cities.
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RALEIGH, NC Dec 26, 2004 - Snow, sleet and freezing rain pelted the Carolinas on Sunday, knocking out power to thousands and causing hundreds of accidents on one of the busiest travel and shopping days of the year.
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Here&#39;s a news flash: spending hours every week stuck in grinding traffic - getting very little exercise and breathing polluted air â-an make you sick.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - It's not quite the highway beautification Illinois transportation officials had in mind.
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The traffic on the two-lane roads leading to the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort figures to be much lighter now, the galleries smaller.
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CARY, NC -- The town of Cary has been ranked ninth in a list of the nation&#39;s safest cities. When it comes to the nation&#39;s most dangerous cities, Camden, NJ, topped the list, snatching the distinction from Detroit, which came in second.
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Los Angeles for years has had the nation's worst traffic jams, but these days even the streets and highways in small and medium cities from Brownsville, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska, to Honolulu, Hawaii, are giving rush-hour drivers fits.
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In a Sept. 18 story about traffic congestion, The Associated Press misstated on first reference the name of the institute that published a study on the problem. It is the Texas Transportation Institute, not the Texas Traffic Institute.
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb.
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By Jay Conley, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 28--FINCASTLE -- A developer's plan to build a Holiday Inn Express in Daleville got caught in the crossfire Tuesday between county officials frustrated over the growing traffic congestion at Interstate 81's Exit 150.
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It might be hard for some drivers to believe, but average commuting times are getting shorter for U.S. workers.
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By Steve Lyttle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 17--Firefighters battled a blaze Sunday morning at a Catholic church in southwest Charlotte. No injuries have been reported.   The fire was reported shortly after 9 a.m. at St.
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North Carolina's first trip to the West Coast in four years went south in a hurry. Their national ranking can't be far behind.