I sit in traffic at Camp and Folly Roads almost every day. I really should be riding my bike, but it’s a haul from Folly Beach.
Charleston County’s RoadWise (the same group with the Maybank widening proposals on Johns Island) has four ideas planned to better flow at the intersection. They all include cutting down “grand” live oak trees.
You can read about them and tell RoadWise the alternative you prefer here.
Islanders for Responsible Expansion, the group that formed earlier this year to oppose the Wal-Mart expansion, has this to say about the alternatives.
The intersection is currently a grade F intersection. RoadWise’s plans would cost $6 million and cut down 28-41 of our grand oaks.
If this project is completed, the intersection will STILL be a grade F. According to RoadWise, it would simply be a “better F.”
Until RoadWise comes up with a more acceptable plan, IRE is advocating Alternative 3 (No Build). In the comment field, please write that you want to see other, more modest options presented that solve our problems without clear-cutting our canopy of oaks. Adding a comment is essential!
