Ballantyne residents have until Sunday, Oct. 25, to tell regional planners which roads and intersections they consider most dangerous.

The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) launched its "Safety is No Accident" survey in September, asking drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and transit users across the region to pinpoint unsafe corridors, Queen City News reported. The effort comes after nearly 3,000 people were killed or seriously injured on Charlotte-area roads since 2020, according to WBTV.

The survey carries direct relevance for Ballantyne. The intersection of Pineville-Matthews Road and Johnston Road is already under evaluation for pedestrian safety upgrades through a separate $4.47 million federal Safe Streets for All grant, according to the city of Charlotte. That program is installing accessible pedestrian signals and leading pedestrian intervals at 12 Charlotte intersections. The CRTPO survey gives residents a way to flag additional trouble spots the crash data may not capture.

The survey is Phase One of CRTPO's Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (CSAP), a regional effort to reduce fatal and serious-injury crashes. Respondents enter their zip code and rank the five nearby intersections that crash data has flagged as most dangerous. They can also flag intersections outside their zip code.

"Public feedback really drives the priority of where we address those most dangerous intersections first," Will Snyder, a CRTPO project manager and transportation planner, told Queen City News on Tuesday, Oct. 13.

Using crash data from 2021 through 2025, CRTPO has identified several high-collision intersections across Charlotte:

  • Central Avenue and North Sharon Amity Road: 218 crashes, three fatal
  • North Graham Street and West Sugar Creek Road: 156 crashes, two fatal
  • Remount Road and West Boulevard: 109 crashes, three fatal

Snyder told Queen City News that wide lanes, high posted speed limits and signal timing all contribute to dangerous conditions. Fixes could range from restriping and adjusted signal timing to traffic dividers and lower speed limits, WBTV reported.

No specific crash figures for Johnston Road or other Ballantyne-area intersections appeared in the published data. The survey offers residents a way to put those corridors on CRTPO's radar.

CRTPO has not announced when the CSAP recommendations will be released. The survey is available at surveymonkey.com/r/DJSXHN2, and residents in Mecklenburg, Iredell and Union counties are all eligible to participate before the Oct. 25 deadline.