CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The South Carolina Department of Transportation is in the process of a resurfacing project on the upper peninsula.
Officials with the City of Charleston say the goal is to enhance safety for pedestrians and bikers.
The work is being done on Meeting Street, North of Mount Pleasant Street, to where Spruill Avenue comes in.
The City of Charleston along with SCDOT, which is funding this, describes this as a road diet.
The part of Meeting Street in question will decrease from four lanes to three lanes and will have a center turn lane once completed.
“It’s going to be hugely helpful when we have truck traffic up there going to facilities that are on the waterfront, the trucks can use that center turn lane and won’t have to stop the traffic behind them,” City of Charleston Planning Manager Christopher Morgan said.
A bike lane and sidewalk improvements are the other main elements of this construction.
Andrew Augustine works on Meeting Street and says he fully supports this project
“I think this section of Meeting Street has become increasingly dangerous over the past few years, with more traffic heading up the peninsula, and the neck area becoming more developed, and there’s no signs of that stopping anytime soon,” Augustine said.
The contract work must be completed by June, and with good weather, officials say the repaving could potentially begin by the end of the month.
Morgan asks for people to be patient while construction takes place.
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