Mount Pleasant celebrates Highway 17 completion
An accident that downed a traffic signal at Bowman Road snarled traffic on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard in Mount Pleasant on Jan. 23, 2009. A three-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 17 was widened to help alleviate traffic woes in such instances. Buy this photo
Mount Pleasant Town Council members (from left) John Burn, Elton Carrier, Mayor Billy Swails, Chris Nickels, Linda Page, Thomasena Stokes-Marshall, Charleston County Council Chairman Teddie Pryor, County Councilman Herb Sass, Town Councilman Chris O?Neal and County Councilman Elliott Summey on Monday stand next to a ceremonial stoplight marking the near-completion of the Johnnie Dodds Boulevard widening. Buy this photo
