Light at the end of Dorchester County road bottleneck?
SUMMERVILLE —Traffic lights are expected to be installed at the rush hour traffic-clogged Cooks Crossroads intersection by July 2013.
The installation would end a bottleneck created at the once-rural intersection in 2008, when Ashley Ridge High School opened nearby.
The installation would be the beginning of a widening of Bacons Bridge Road, which crosses S.C. at the intersection. It’s a break from a standard S.C. Department of Transportation policy against installing lights until an entire road project is finished.
The $24 million Bacons Bridge Road project is expected to be paid for with a mix of Dorchester County penny sales tax money, federal and state grants.
Read more in tomorrow’s The Post and Courier.
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