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Mt. Pleasant Traffic Relief

By Ashley Thiesen Caldwell | September 14, 2009

Mt Pleasant, SC has a new addition: Hungry Neck Boulevard will be completed soon and open to the public. This $4.7 million project has been delayed due to bad summer weather. The road is anticipated to be open to traffic by early November.

The new two-lane road will link the Isle of Palms Connector and Six Mile Road. It will have a median along with pedestrian walkways on both sides of the road. The roadway will be a much-needed relief to the already busy US 17.

The new addition to Hungry Neck Boulevard will connect the existing 1.5-mile-long boulevard that runs from U.S. 17 at I-526 to the Isle of Palms Connector at Iron Bridge Road. Another planned extension of the boulevard that will begin at Bowman Road is a cooperative venture between the town and the developers of Central Mount Pleasant.

The town is also considering another boulevard extension from Six Mile Road to Porchers Bluff Road, but funding is not yet available.

The section of new boulevard from the Isle of Palms Connector to Six Mile Road is funded through a $2.3 million general fund bond, $1.1 million in transportation impact fees, $1 million in tax increment district financing, $150,000 in hospitality tax revenue and $110,000 in another general fund bond. The biggest expense was the construction contract at $2.5 million.

More traffic relief is planned in the form of a project to widen five miles of US 17 from four lanes to six lanes from the Connector north to Darrell Creek Trail. The project is intended to relieve serious commuter delays, particularly during rush hours.

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