County Council will likely decide very soon whether or not to approve an expressway across Johns Island. The proposed road would have minimal exits, cutting across historic family and farm properties to allow Kiawah and Seabrook homeowners a fast route to town. The road requires filling wetlands, and could use eminent domain to bisect peoples’ properties.
The ancient live oaks on Bohicket Road are often used as an excuse for this road — a parkway would eliminate (or would it?) the need to widen that historic street.
If you oppose an expressway on Johns Island, sign this petition. And do it now - signatures are taken until tomorrow.
Also, a public hearing on the Cross Island Expressway is scheduled on Thursday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m. in the St. Johns High School Auditorium (1518 Main Road; Johns Island, SC 29455)
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And if you support it…. Nowhere to sign up eh?!?
A little bias here?
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Peter, if you or anyone else want to start a petition asking for an expressway across Johns Island, I’ll be glad to post that link as well.
The proposed Cross Island Expressway is NOT about a fast route to Charleston for Kiawah & Seabrook residents.
Dave Munday of the Post & Courier, wrote a telling article on February 13, 2008. The article describes a study done by TRIP, a transportation study group based in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the S.C. Alliance to Fix Our Roads, a group urging more state money for rural roads.
The study found that the two most treacherous stretches of rural roads in the Charleston area are on Johns Island between Kiawah and Seabrook and Charleston. There were 28 fatalities on those two stretches between 2002 and 2006.
Current zoning for Johns Island allows roughly 8,000 additional units to be developed. This means MORE people, MORE cars, and no doubt more accidents. Development is coming, there is no doubt about that. We need to tell the SC. Dept. of Transportation how WE want to handle the unsafe roads on Johns Island, rather than have someone who does not live here decide what to do.
If you think we need safer roads and wish to sign your name to a petition for a LIMITED ACCESS (read, no developments would be permitted to dump out on the road) road, visit the link below.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/say-yes-to-cross-island-parkway
“Limited access”? If the Cross Island Parkway is built, the road-building companies who are lobbying for this thing will be replaced by developers. In ten years commuters will be sitting in line at the exits built to accommodate new strip malls and subdivisions.