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My fiance' and I are relocating to Charlotte in late July. She has a teaching position in the Ballantyne area; but I believe I will be working in the city (uptown most likely). I have heard the commute is bad, but how bad is it? I would like to know what I am getting myself into each morning/afternoon. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
If you leave Ballantyne by 6:30 am, you will usually be OK. I would totally avoid 77 and 485 between 5:00pm and 6:30pm if you can! There are a lot of different ways to get uptown, but traffic is pretty bad any way you go from Ballantyne. Sorry!!
To get all the way uptown you would have to take either Park Rd or South Blvd and those can be bad enough. Here is the good news. Our light rail system SHOULD open this November and you can park at 485 and South Blvd and ride downtown. I know I would do that over driving anyday.
From Ballantyne you can take Johnston Rd or South Blvd., or take Park Rd., or Providence (probably the most congested). There are quite a few roads and depending on where downtown, you could possibly get there in less than an hour.
I currently rent at the corner of Ballantyne Commons Pkwy and Lancaster. It takes 1hr in the morning (at 6:45 am either driving or by bus) it takes 1hr 15min in the afternoon (again either driving of by bus). The problem is that this is the best it will ever be. They are building housing in the south at a rediculous rate, the infrastructure is not there. In the city, they are dropping office buildings on all the parking lots...As for the light rail, it runs in a very industrial part of town, with no real easy access from the east, and doesn't extend far enough south to help much (idiots in Pineville wouldn't let it in). I don't see the light rail helping much with commutes from the south. We have been looking around and the best commute right now is down RT16 from Mnt Island Lake. The only problem is that is goes throught hood, and you'd be living next to a coal plant. SC might be an option also.....
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