This York County boulevard will close Thursday. Here’s why, and how to get around it.
A York County boulevard will close Thursday afternoon as law enforcement uses the area for training.
Daimler Boulevard in Lake Wylie will close from noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 5. Rock Hill police will use the site for training exercises, according to the York County Office of Emergency Management. Traffic cones and patrol cars will be present in the area.
Daimler Boulevard connects S.C. 49 and S.C. 274 in Lake Wylie. Daimler cuts through to connect those biggest Lake Wylie thoroughfares just north of Big Allison Creek. The road was built to withstand a considerable amount of traffic when Daimler Trucks North America bought land there in 2008 for a 200,000-square-foot office building amid talks of bringing company headquarters there.
That traffic hasn’t materialized as Daimler sold the property six years after buying it. The police training Thursday isn’t the first time Daimler Boulevard has been used, not even the first time this year. The road closed for three days in April for York County Sheriff’s Office training.
Law enforcement routinely use public spaces for training, with heads up given to the public ahead of time to ease onlooker concern or, especially when roads are closed, allow people to take another route. In mid-November Rock Hill police trained at the Rock Hill Galleria and Manchester Meadows in the city.
Anyone who would use Daimler as a cut through would have to take Liberty Hill Road to the north or a combination of Campbell and Paraham roads to the south as the nearest alternates.
