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GUIDE TO CHARLOTTE, NC DRIVING
Charlotte is composed mostly of one street. It just bears many different names. For example, Wendover is the same as Runnymede, is the same as Woodlawn, is the same as Billy Graham, is the same as Sugarcreek, is the same as Eastway, is the same as Wendover.
All directions in Charlotte will include the following phrase, "...when you come to the corner of Queens and Queens." Throw those away. Even map quest is confused here.
Sharon Rd has no beginning and no end, and is not to be confused with Sharon Rd West, Sharon Rd East, Sharon View, Sharon Lakes, Sharon Amity, Sharon Hills, Sharon Terrace, Sharon Harbor, Sharon Lane, etc. Who is Sharon anyways?
Charlotteans ONLY know their way to work and their way home. If you ask anyone for directions, make sure they are from out of town!
The 8am rush hour is from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The 5:00 p.m. rush HOUR is from 3:30pm to 7:30pm. *Fridays rush hour starts Thursday morning and lasts through 2:00 a.m. Saturday.
Reversible lanes are not understood by anyone, especially of us who live here. Stay out of them, unless you are looking for a head on collision!
The falling of one raindrop means to immediately forget all traffic rules. So will daylight savings time, a girl applying eye shadow in the next car, the man shaving and talking on his cell phone, a flat tire three lanes over, or anything the color orange within a two miles radius.
You might be late because all lanes on I-77 are all going the same speed-60 mph...people dont understand that the left lane is the fast lane/passing lane, or you get stuck behind a Mexican with out a licence, or it started to rain and everyone slowed down 15 mph under the speed limit.....see above ^^
If a single snowflake falls, the city is paralyzed for three days and it's on all the channels as a news flash every 15 minutes for a month. All grocery stores will be sold out of milk, bread, bottled water, toilet paper, and beer if there is a remote chance of snow, and if it does snow, people will be on every street corner selling "I survived the blizzard" t-shirts.
It is always smog alert day.
Street construction is a way of life and a permanent form of entertainment, especially when a water line is tapped and Charlotte's version of Old Faithful erupts. Construction crews aren't doing their job properly unless they close down all lanes except one during rush hour.
I-485 is our equivalent of the Autobahn. You will rarely see a semi-truck on I-485, because even the truck drivers are intimidated by the oversized SUV wielding soccer mom housewives racing home after a grueling day at the salon to meet their children at the school bus coming home from the college prep preschool.
The pollen count is off the national scale for unhealthy which starts at 120. Charlotte is usually in the 2,000 to 4,000 range, and all roads, vehicles, houses, etc. are yellow from March 28 to July 15. If you have any allergies, you will die. Please refrain from driving.
The last thing you want to do is give another driver the finger, unless your car is armored, your trigger finger is itchy and your AK-47 has a full clip. So try to understand these rules and live to stop and go another day.