Spartanburg, South Carolina: Pine Street traffic concerns (Union, Pacolet: dangerous, oil)

[Carolina Knight]

Pine Street (United States Route 176/South Carolina Highway 9) is the subject of concerns of speeding and volume of traffic in the City of Spartanburg.

The corridor has a volume of commercial traffic. Most of the traffic is oil along Southport Road or industries in Pacolet, Jonesville, and Union.

Speed limits are either thirty-five to forty miles per hour. I doubt the speed limit can be reduced more as slow traffic would be dangerous.

Further reading

• Swann, Samantha. "Speed, volume of Pine Street traffic causing concerns." Spartanburg Herald-Journal. 2018-08-07.

[nans123]

Yes the traffic is terrible. There are to many trucks that go on Pine Street. There was talk many years ago about putting an I-26 to I-85 loop south of Spartanburg but that will never happen in my lifetime. Hwy. 295 could be that four lane loop but they would have to take it from South Pine near northwest of Pacolet over to I-85.

[Carolina Knight]

Southport Road needs to be widened to four lanes from Patch Drive to South Pine Street. This should have been done when the stretch from John B. White Sr. Boulevard to Union Street was widened.

I am aware of the southeast Spartanburg County loop. I am not aware of anything new with the idea.