​Meeting:

The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is holding a Public Information Meeting for the proposed US 17 Alternate Rural Road Safety Project. The meeting will be offered online as well as in person.

The in-person meeting with the project team will be offered on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, from 5 PM to 7 PM at Canaan United Methodist Church located at 171 Highway 61, Ridgeville, SC 29472. For additional information contact SCDOT project manager Bryan Jones at 803- 737-1845 or at JonesBL@scdot.org.

The Public Information Meeting will have displays and handouts for viewing, and citizens will have the opportunity to provide written comments. Project information, including meeting displays and handouts, will also be available on the project website at https://scdotgis.online/US17ARRSP2  beginning September 27, 2021. This site will also provide citizens an opportunity to provide comments. The Public Comment period will begin on September 27, 2021, and end on October 27, 2021.

Purpose:

The purpose of this meeting is to provide an opportunity for the public to review and discuss the proposed project with representatives from the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT). The proposed project involves a 9-mile section of rural US 17 Alternate from the Colleton County line to the Ashley River Bridge in Dorchester County. This corridor was identified as a rural safety project corridor due to the frequency of run-of-road crashes. The programmatic scope was to identify and provide safety upgrades to first keep motorists from leaving the roadway and secondly to provide a forgiving recovery area if a motorist did leave the roadway. The specific project scope will include various engineering solutions such as widening and paving of shoulders, wider and brighter pavement markings, edge line and centerline rumble strips, improved clear zone, flattening of roadside slopes and additional guardrail to reduce the frequency of fatal and serious injury run-off-the-road crashes.

Personnel from SCDOT will be available to answer questions and discuss the project with interested citizens on an individual basis.

Contact: 

Additional information concerning the project may be obtained by contacting Bryan Jones, PE, Program Manager, Rural Road Safety Program at 803-737-1845 in Columbia, or at JonesBl@scdot.org.  Persons with disabilities who may require special accommodations should contact Ms. Betty Gray at 803-737-1395.