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Beaufort County emergency management chief urges planners to "think of the ripples" of road projects, points to high-crash Sea Island Parkway
Summary
Colonel Neil Baxley told a Beaufort County advisory committee that past design changes and partial implementations have produced "ripples" that worsen crashes and congestion, citing Sea Island Parkway and other hotspots and urging the committee to factor downstream impacts and evacuation limits into project prioritization.
Colonel Neil Baxley, Beaufort County's emergency management director, told the county's Transportation Advisory Committee that some roadway projects have improved one local safety problem while creating traffic and safety "ripples" elsewhere.
"I want to ask you that as you go through this process, think not only of the immediate area that you might be looking at, but think of the ripples," Baxley said. He pointed to the Boundary Street project as an example where a planned frontage road was never built, concentrating traffic on a single corridor.
Baxley outlined several specific problem corridors. He said the two-mile Sea Island Parkway stretch downtown has had "nearly 5,000…
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