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I would prefer to see the money spent on fixing malfunction junction and widening 20. Seems like overkill to build a 4-5 lane road that nearly mirrors an existing interstate.
I would prefer to see the money spent on fixing malfunction junction and widening 20. Seems like overkill to build a 4-5 lane road that nearly mirrors an existing interstate.
What is really needed is an outer beltway around the city but this will not happen as I doubt the traffic volume and cost warrants such.
To those from more urban areas, Columbia traffic is still sissy traffic..........LOL
I have always thought the same thing. I live and work in NE Columbia and the workdays I head down I-20 @ 5 P.M. to see my parents, I just stay in the left lane because traffic from "malfunction junction" onto I 26 West is always heavily congested. I-77 is kind of like a "by-pass" of downtown Columbia, it would make since if there was a free way to connect I-77 to I-26 W towards Spartanburg, just a thought.
I don't think it's bad at all. I just hop on I-20 and can be there in 20-23 minutes unless traffic is bad.
It's getting progressively worse in my opinion, wrecks appear to increase, and why do people rubber-neck (i.e. slow down to see an accident which causes traffic to back up and can cause more accidents).
I have always thought the same thing. I live and work in NE Columbia and the workdays I head down I-20 @ 5 P.M. to see my parents, I just stay in the left lane because traffic from "malfunction junction" onto I 26 West is always heavily congested. I-77 is kind of like a "by-pass" of downtown Columbia, it would make since if there was a free way to connect I-77 to I-26 W towards Spartanburg, just a thought.
A friend of mine retired from SC DOT says the state has had an outerbelt way on the drawing boards forever. The objective being getting I26 traffic passing through Columbia off the present I26 and around Columbia away from downtown. They saw I77 as part/beginning of this.
He says they know what to do, but there is no money to do so and he says he does not expect to see it in his lifetime.
A friend of mine retired from SC DOT says the state has had an outerbelt way on the drawing boards forever. The objective being getting I26 traffic passing through Columbia off the present I26 and around Columbia away from downtown. They saw I77 as part/beginning of this.
He says they know what to do, but there is no money to do so and he says he does not expect to see it in his lifetime.
So part of this would be roughly parallel to I-26 between Cayce and somewhere past Malfunction Junction? I don't see how this could be built without displacing a lot of people.
So part of this would be roughly parallel to I-26 between Cayce and somewhere past Malfunction Junction? I don't see how this could be built without displacing a lot of people.
If you draw a line from where Killian Road ends to the south side of the Harbison State Forest, there is hardly anyone in the line of fire.
So part of this would be roughly parallel to I-26 between Cayce and somewhere past Malfunction Junction? I don't see how this could be built without displacing a lot of people.
As I understood it, it would eventually be a belt way (circular road) around the whole city and some 10 miles or so outside I26.
Example, one going West on I26 (from Charleston) would exit I26 at which now is I77, north on I77, cross over I20, a bit further up I77 would be say I526 which one would take West and rejoin I26 out past Irmo. This would be say the northern loop of the I526 beltway. I26 to I77 to I526 to I26.
Kind of like I295 around Richmond VA. Then eventually like I495 around Washington DC.
I do not expect any of us to ever see such as traffic volume does not warrant such. Same as one should not build 12 lane roads to handle AM and PM rush hours as the 12 lanes would sit unused about 18 hours a day. It would be a total waste of money.
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