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| Transportation |
| The city's location has made it a longtime transportation
focal point and major trucking center, with two major interstate
highways, I-85 and I-77, intersecting within the city's boundaries.
An interstate bypass, designated I-485 and nicknamed the "Outerbelt",
is under construction and slated for completion in 2013. No
streets in Charlotte run north-south or east-west, and street
names are astonishingly similar due to the fact many of the
city's earliest roads outside the uptown area were named for
churches at the furthest ends of their routes, such as Sardis,
Sharon and Providence Churches-- all Presbyterian-- and secondary
roads in their vicinities also employed the same churches' names
(e.g. Sharon View Road) [1] (http://www.ncroads.com/clt/charnow.htm).
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| The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) provides bus service,
express shuttles, historical trolleys and a free downtown circulator
called Gold Rush. CATS has undertaken a south corridor light
rail project, scheduled for completion later this decade, that
will run from Uptown to suburban Pineville. Other corridors
are planned for light rail, along with bus rapid transit. Commuter
rail is planned from Uptown to the suburbs of Huntersville,
Cornelius, Davidson and Mooresville. |
| Charlotte Douglas International Airport is served by many
international and domestic airlines. Formerly the base for Piedmont
Airlines, it is the busiest hub of US Airways; nonstop flights
are available to destinations across the United States, Europe,
Caribbean, Latin America and Canada.
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| Amtrak's Crescent and Carolinian and Piedmont trains connect
Charlotte with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.
The Amtrak station is situated at 1914 North Tryon Street.
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| The city harbors a wide system of parks and greenways, recreational
areas that can be used by pedestrians and bicyclists.
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