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SCDOT outlines scaled-back Folly Road safety plan amid resident concerns over medians and emergency access
Summary
South Carolina Department of Transportation representatives presented a revised Folly Road safety proposal that reduces raised medians to three locations and keeps several sidewalk and pedestrian features under study after public feedback; residents raised safety and emergency-access questions during the steering committee meeting.
South Carolina Department of Transportation representatives on May 22 told the Rethink Folly Road steering committee they had revised an earlier, more aggressive concept to show three raised medians at Avenue A, Truist (Truist Bank area) and Camp, while removing other medians originally proposed through the Walmart frontage.
The change follows public comments and a DOT re-evaluation of crash data, DOT presenter Sean Sally said. “When we initially do these projects … we kind of throw everything out there that’s going to optimize safety. We do a lot of systemic things,” Sally said. He added staff then “go back and look at the crash data” and remove elements that do not clearly improve safety or that could create other hazards.
The revised plan retains pedestrian improvements including crosswalks and signal upgrades at several locations and proposes a HAWK (high-intensity activated crosswalk) beacon at the Truist crossing, Sally said. The plan will include refuge islands at selected crossings and…
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