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This would be cool if the 526 designers could incorporate something like this on the Johns Island leg. Create a large park on top of a portion of 526. Or build affordable housing on top of the tunnels. Okay, nevermind, but still interesting.
Tunnels in Charleston? What drugs are you huffing, can i gets some?
It's not so much tunnels as sort of a dirt crossover. The advantage I see is that it will give people high ground to run to when their cars flood out as they sit trapped on the highway.
It's not so much tunnels as sort of a dirt crossover. The advantage I see is that it will give people high ground to run to when their cars flood out as they sit trapped on the highway.
I suppose that'd be useful.... not really practical due to how dense the area in question is
Tunnels in Charleston? What drugs are you huffing, can i gets some?
As LH noted above, the tunnels would not be underground. Normal surface highway but with dirt mounds built above tubes. I was thinking it would be nice to incorporate a feature (large park) that would make the Johns Island leg of 526 more environmentally friendly and might increase support for completing 526.
My comment about building affordable housing above the tunnels was tongue-in-cheek.
Because the project doesn't cost enough with just the roads..
At this point I'm about at a place where they can just spend that money elsewhere. Not building 526 isn't going to slow growth down despite what the head in the sand dip sticks over there think. They're going to continue to grow, to sprawl and they're going to have poor infrastructure to handle it. It's going to be a complete mess (already is) and the opportunity to fix it will have passed. No one in the state is going to be willing to bail them out at even higher prices later on.
Take some of that money and build a rail line from the ports to a distribution hub. Fast track the lane expansion of 26 to Columbia.
Whatever happened to the North and South pitchforks and the Savannah Hwy/Main St flyover projects?
I saw a rendering of that a few months ago. Very expensive the way it's designed. Could be done simpler and less costly. They are planning on to much marsh covering and it still has traffic lights.
I suppose that'd be useful.... not really practical due to how dense the area in question is
There was actually supposed to be a laughing face at the end of my post. Not sure what happened to it. I wasn't seriously posing that as a practical benefit.
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