Charlotte’s dark freeways a step closer to seeing the light

Charlotte freeways will be better lit at night under a $30.8 million state contract to upgrade roadway light fixtures across the state. The N.C. Department of Transportation said the contract with Trane U.S. Inc. and J. Brady Contracting Inc. will upgrade 10,600 fixtures at more than 350 locations statewide. About 3,300 of the new lights will go up in the Charlotte area. Non-working lights on interstates are a perennial problem for local drivers.

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