Thursday, December 15, 2005
Study backs overpasses on U.S. 17
BY JESSICA VANEGEREN
The Post and Courier
Mount Pleasant - Overpasses are the best solution for future traffic volumes
on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, according to a six-month-long traffic analysis by a
town-hired consultant.
Representatives with Collins Engineers and Day Wilburn Associates presented
their findings Wednesday in front of a crowd of roughly 50 residents who seemed
disheartened and in disbelief of the results.
The consultants stated that with traffic on Johnnie Dodds, which is also U.S.
Highway 17, expected to jump from 58,000 vehicles a day to 70,000 vehicles a day
by 2030, elevated overpasses, or flyovers, at the intersections of Johnnie Dodds
and Houston Northcutt boulevards and Johnnie Dodds and Bowman Road would be the
most efficient way to move traffic. Flyovers also would provide better
pedestrian and bicycle mobility they said.
The consultants also suggested that the preferred remedy for traffic at three
other main intersections between Houston Northcutt and Bowman would be
reconstructing them with left-turn lanes in advance of the normal signaled
intersection to alleviate backups.
Roundabouts, an option favored by many town residents, ranked at the bottom
of the consultants' list.
"The main point appears to be to get people from downtown Charleston to Park
West and Charleston National as quickly as possible," said L.M. Smith, who lives
near Johnnie Dodds. "All this will do is encourage strip mall development and
increase the speed of traffic and the noise to nearby neighborhoods."
A separate $250,000 study of Johnnie Dodds, paid for by business owners, is
expected to be completed in January.
Residents will have one more chance to voice their opinions on the
information presented Wednesday before town council votes on the matter sometime
in January or February.
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