Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept/Oct 2019

mp business www.MPBusinessMag.com | www.BestOfMP.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com MPB R oad and utility work is expected to be completed by the end of 2019 on Coleman Boulevard, bringing to a close a project that has affected the flow of traffic on one of Mount Pleasant’s major thoroughfares for more than two years. Motorists certainly won’t be sad to see the ubiquitous orange barrels and cones removed from the road that helps carry traffic from the Arthur Ravenel Bridge to the beach and the businesses, Street and Pherigo Street, $3.5 million of which was for utility relocations and upgrades, also includes storm water and roadway upgrades, as well as “massive drainage improvements,” landscaped medians, lighting, bike lanes, bus pullouts, benches, trash receptacles, bike racks and an innovative traffic signal system that automatically adapts to the flow of vehicles on the road. Morrison said after the paving work is completed, the new traffic signals would be in operation in October and lighting would be finished before the end of the year. “Three months from now, people will be really impressed,” Morrison commented in July. “The intent was to make Coleman Boulevard a more pedestrian-friendly environment — a main street.” “A huge part of the cost and need was drainage improvements,” he added. “You won’t see flooding anymore.” ALL AMERICAN BOULEVARD This project will extend All American Boulevard from where it currently ends at the Wholesale Appliance Center across George Browder Boulevard to the roundabout near Highway 17 in Park West. The .6-mile project, currently scheduled for construction from March 2020 to December 2021, will cost $5.365 million. The new road will permit residents who live in the area to drive to the Publix shopping center and its environs without traveling on Highway 17. Morrison pointed out that the construction schedule is subject to changes in the town’s Capital Improvement Program, which is funded from year to year. HIGHWAY 17 TO RIFLE RANGE CONNECTOR This project at one time included the realignment of Long Point Road across a portion of Boone Hall Plantation, but the Town Council removed that part of the project in BY BRIAN SHERMAN Roadwork Continues Don’t R ll Out the Barrels QuiteYet Transportation Infrastructure Division Chief Paul Lykins, left, and Mount Pleasant Transportation Director Brad Morrison, check out the work currently being completed on Coleman Boulevard. homes and schools in between, but the brightly colored barriers won’t be disappearing altogether. They’ll be used for several other planned or ongoing transportation projects aimed at making it easier to get from point A to point B in one of America’s fastest-growing towns. COLEMAN BOULEVARD Construction got underway on Sept. 11, 2017, and, according to Mount Pleasant Transportation Director Brad Morrison, the final paving work will be completed in September. The $18.2 million project between Mill Photos by Brian Sherman.