Here’s how more than $2.7 billion will be spent improving Charleston-area roads
Rapid development and population growth, and the cars and trucks that come with it, have led to traffic problems across the Charleston metro area and a $2.7 billion list of road improvement projects.
And those are just the major road projects currently under way or coming in the next several years. That’s not counting the revived plan to extend Interstate 526to Johns and James islands or the anticipated plan to widen the same interstate from North Charleston to its eastern end in Mount Pleasant.
Road projects throughout the tri-county area are already going through engineering, or right-of-way purchases, permitting and construction. During the next several years, the Charleston area’s population of orange traffic barrels will skyrocket.
