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Council gives guidance to take Georgia Avenue traffic-calming design to SCDOT
Summary
Consultants presented a traffic-calming package for Georgia Avenue that rejects a lane reduction, proposes narrower lanes, medians, RRFB pedestrian crossings, in-road warning lights and conversion of angled to parallel parking (reducing on-street spaces from 58 to 41). Council agreed to coordinate with SCDOT and use capital project sales tax funding.
Kimley-Horn consultant Joe presented the final design package for Georgia Avenue, a four-lane US 25 corridor through downtown. The team said traffic counts taken in August 2022 showed about 25,000 vehicles per day near the river and identified crash “hot spots” from five years of South Carolina Department of Public Safety data (about 300 crashes along the corridor over five years), concentrated in the downtown core.
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