Mount Pleasant Magazine 6.4

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Michael E. Collins: Right – 526 was a picnic last night!!!
Kathy Bannister: Spent 2½ hours on 41 from 17 between 5 and 7 p.m.
Bob Edwards: Finally!
Denise Melton Kepecs: Was just cursing this road today! Hope this all pans
out quickly and easily.
Amanda Marie Cecilia Martin: Put a circle or light at the road leading to
Sonic.
Paul Irwin: Widening 41, new bridge. All funnels into Clements Ferry Road.
What a mess that is on a daily basis.
Alan Langston: Not sure any of it is the answer. Why not use the electrical line
easement that runs just beyond Highway 41 on Highway 17? This could be
built at less cost and quicker than a widening project and could feed existing
arterial routes.
Mitch Chisholm: Improving Highway 41 should greatly support a lot of new
development. Lots and lots of rural property just waiting. Think of the tax
revenue that will spin off from those new homes. The newcomers will be
happy to get away from rude people and ice and snow.
William J. Hamilton: We cannot and will never build enough roads to move
all the traffic from all the places those roads open to development. If we
shave five minutes off of a commute, someone will build a new development
three miles further out into the countryside where nobody will care. All of
this pushes more traffic into our urban core, where there is no more room for
more roads. Transit is the only way out of the problem: .
Jeanne Snow: What happened to the suggestion by Mayor Riley years ago
regarding a monorail system for future transit problems? Road expansion
opens up plans for additional development and added traffic burdens. Years
late, dollars short as usual. Always been a huge problem since the onset of
major growth.
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Notes From Friends
“Moving Forward:
Something is About to
Happen on Highway 41”
Editor’s Note: In our May/June 2016 issue, we published a feature
written by Brian Sherman about the proposed improvements on
Highway 41. Our social media fans and followers had a lot to
say about the topic – in fact, it was one of our most shared and
commented-upon stories EVER – so we decided to print a few here.
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