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Charleston County News Release
MEDIA
CONTACT
Name:
Jennie Davis Flinn, Charleston County Public Information Officer
Phone: (843)
958-4012
Email:
jflinn@charlestoncounty.org
Release Number: 3076
Release Date: January 28,
2010
See project information online:
http://www.ccroadwise.org/intersections.html
Intersection Improvements Added to List of Completed Road Projects
Ravenel and Mount Pleasant receive improved turning lanes funded by the
Transportation Sales Tax
Charleston County Government has completed three more intersection
improvement projects that will bring increased safety to drivers in Mount
Pleasant and Ravenel.
Two of the intersection
improvement projects involve turn lanes in the town of Mount Pleasant. The
other improvement is in the town of Ravenel. Each of the completed projects
will allow greater opportunities for vehicles to slow down before turning,
provide more area for turning, and, in one of the projects, allow better
movement of vehicles accessing the schools along Thomas Cario Boulevard in
Mount Pleasant.
All three projects will
improve safety for drivers. Descriptions of the projects are as follows:
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US 17 /
Tumbleston Road in Ravenel
The speed limit on US 17
at this location is 60 mph. The new turn lane will make it safer for
motorists to slow down and make a right turn off of US 17 South onto Tubleston Road.
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US 17 /
Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant
The improved turn lane
along this stretch of road will enable a greater number of southbound
vehicles to turn right at one time at the stoplight onto Long Point Road
from US 17 South.
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Park
West Boulevard/Thomas Cario Boulevard in Mount Pleasant
The new turn lanes will
improve access to the schools along Thomas Cario Boulevard. Before the
improvement, vehicles traveling to the schools blocked vehicles traveling
straight through the intersection.
“Small-scale projects such
as those in Ravenel and Mount Pleasant have created a safer environment for
drivers,” said Steve Thigpen, Chief Program Engineer for the Charleston
County Transportation Development Department.
The S.C. Department of
Transportation and Town of Mount Pleasant requested the projects, which took
six months to construct. The combined cost for all three projects was
approximately $480,000. This amount includes design, right-of-way
acquisition and construction.
BACKGROUND
The
Charleston County Transportation Sales Tax funds both small and large
improvements projects throughout Charleston County.
Voters approved the
Charleston County Transportation Sales Tax Program referendum in November of
2004. Collection of the Transportation Sales Tax began in May 2005 and will
continue for 25 years or until $1.303 billion is generated for
transportation and green space related projects and improvements.
Charleston County RoadWise
is the name of the Charleston County Government’s management program for the
construction of roads, highways, resurfacing, paving and drainage projects
that are funded by the Transportation Sales Tax. Smaller projects are known
as allocations projects. This simply means that annually Charleston County
Government sets aside funding for small projects.
Other
Transportation Sales Tax annual allocation projects underway or completed:
Many additional road and drainage improvements
are being implemented by
Charleston County Government through annual funding allocated by County
Council to smaller projects throughout the community:
Visit the Charleston
County RoadWise program Web site at
www.ccroadwise.org for public meeting notices and up-to-date news and
information about all Charleston County Transportation Sales Tax projects.
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