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Making Headway: LCRT Continues to Advance in 2024
The LCRT project is moving full speed ahead in 2024, kicking off the year with momentum as the project team continues to work through the Engineering phase.
“Over the next few months, the team will continue developing design plans and will emphasize collaboration and engagement with communities and stakeholders. Here’s what we’ll be working on through the next few months:
“Continued coordination with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and local and state agencies to keep moving the project forward
Completion and delivery of 60% design plans, which will expand on details of the project
Ongoing engagement with communities, neighborhoods, elected officials, and businesses to ensure that the community remains informed and involved in the project.”
Should be interesting to see how they dedicate lanes to this on Rivers Ave. If they plan on just taking a lane, people are going to lose their minds.
The plan is to have dedicated bus lanes on the route from I-26@University Ave. to Reynolds Ave. Most of that section has a grassy median in the middle of it which is where the dedicated bus lanes are going. As for the sections without the median, I have no idea.
It's likely they will widen the road to the outside where there is no median so as not to remove a travel lane.
As bad as our traffic is getting, I would not be surprised if they did not try to convert actual lanes at some points to really drive-up desirability of mass transit. I think a huge part of the resistance is cultural norms. The good thing is if they can create dedicated lanes anywhere it will given them a way to better route traffic across the area as it will negate the very valid complaint about the buses not being able to stick to schedule.
I also expect to see one of those zipper lanes come into play at some point to help open up flow on bridges or some of the more heavily used roads.
So, the initial post on this thread was 2019. Yippee, the next big thing. 5 years later they're still working on design?
SC gonna SC.
Federally (majority) funded projects require a minimum 5 year process. In MtP, the Billy Swails 4B road project was given the green light by the Council in 2017. They are hoping to break ground this year. Covid slowed down both Federal and State reviews, btw.
I think Southerners hate zipper merges. It becomes a chicken contest.
Strangely coming from downtown, merging on to the Silas Pearman (newer of the two cooper river bridges) was an unofficial zipper merge. It was this weird unwritten but completely followed bit of traffic etiquette. The opposite would be that suicide merge on Sam Rittenberg/Old Town Rd in West Ashley that the weakling former mayor cancelled addressing...
I'm actually meant a zipper lane similar to the barrier they have on Golden Gate and one or two other bridges where a dump truck looking machine drives over the bridge in tandem with another vehicle as it literally realigns the median to increase on side by a lane and reduce the opposite side. Obviously, that only works when the sides of the bridge have different dominant sides in morning vs afternoon.
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