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Fort Mill seeks $100,000 grant to study adaptive traffic control for local signals
Summary
Council authorized submission of a $100,000 Municipal Association of South Carolina grant application, matched by the town, to fund data collection and preliminary design for an adaptive traffic control system covering Fort Mill signals.
The Fort Mill Town Council authorized staff to submit a grant application to the Municipal Association of South Carolina for $100,000 to support traffic data collection and preliminary design of an adaptive traffic control system.
Town staff explained the town has 29 signals (soon to be 31) and said an adaptive ("smart") traffic control system can reduce travel time, delays and stops substantially — often 10–30% reductions and in some outdated corridors substantially more — and can reduce certain crash types, particularly rear-end collisions. Staff said the requested $100,000 would be matched by town funds and used for counts, modeling and system design as a first step; full implementation would require additional funding, permitting and coordination with SCDOT and regional partners.
Staff estimated 18–24 months as a reasonable timeline to complete data collection, design, permitting and procurement for an initial phase. Councilmembers asked whether the town would proceed without the grant; staff said that would require a future funding decision by council. Councilmembers also asked staff to pursue interim measures with SCDOT to retime or otherwise improve problematic intersections while the larger study proceeds.
Council voted to approve the resolution authorizing the grant application and the mayor was authorized to sign the resolution for submittal by the grant deadline.
