SCDOT says these York, Lancaster and Chester county roads are up next for repaving.
Plans to pave roads statewide involve more than 20 miles of major, farm-to-market and neighborhood roads in York, Lancaster and Chester counties.
The South Carolina Department of Transportation issued a 21-day public comment period for its 2020-21 pavement improvement program. Statewide the program covers 661 miles of road. Work will cost an estimated $412 million.
Comments can be submitted online through July 14 at scdot.org.
Once approved, the list will improve roads over a wide span of the tri-county area.
York County
Four primary roads made the list in York County. A combined 4.89 miles of pavement project includes rehab at Alexander Love Highway and U.S. 321 Bypass on either side of York, and reconstruction at S.C. 274 and S.C. 55 in Lake Wylie.
The S.C. 274 project takes the other side of the main fork heading north from Lake Wylie to the North Carolina line. County cent sales tax campaign Pennies for Progress will pay for Pole Branch Road construction on the opposite side in one of the program’s largest widening projects. The S.C. 55 work comes up to the Five Points intersection in Lake Wylie, opposite Lake Wylie Road.
The York projects involve two of the main east-west roads bypassing downtown.
York County also has two farm-to-market secondary road stretches listed. Both involve North Sutton Road in Fort Mill. Reconstruction work totals 1.24 miles, heading south on Sutton from S.C. 160 West.
Another eight neighborhood streets made the list. They combine for 2.81 miles. Rehab or reconstruction comes at Chandler and Richmond drives, Dorchester and Abernathy streets, Bose, Amelia and Ellen avenues and Joyce Court. Those Rock Hill roads are across Cherry Road from Winthrop University.
Lancaster County
Nine Lancaster County projects combine for 9.3 miles of work. Major road jobs include two separate mile-plus stretches of Monroe Highway north of Lancaster, at the North Carolina line, and more than a mile of Rock River Road at Kershaw-Camden Highway.
More than two miles of Jim Wilson Road is up for reconstruction in Indian Land, at the state line.
Five neighborhood streets have less than a mile of reconstruction each at Confederate, Hampton Grace and Old Thompson — two stretches — avenues, and Franklin Street. Those roads sit southwest of Lancaster.
Chester County
Chester County has four projects listed. There aren’t as many as in York and Lancaster counties, but the roads are longer.
Major roads include just about the furthest stretches of northeast and southwest Chester County. Less than a mile of U.S. 21 or Catawba River Road comes to the York County line. Almost three miles of Fairfield Road runs from West End Road to the southern county line.
Old York Road has more than half a mile of work just north of Chester. Mt. Pleasant Church Road has almost four miles of work planned from Center Road almost to Pinckney Road.
In all, Chester County has 7.65 miles of road listed.
