The Coastal Conservation League executive director says the community needs to quit throwing up roads with the promise that you'll get from Kiawah to Costco 10 minutes quicker "and there won't be anyone else on the road."
It's time to think about the big picture.
This is all by way of saying the league is working to stop the Lowcountry from making a half-billion dollar mistake.
They say stretching the Mark Clark Expressway from West Ashley across Johns Island and hooking it to the James Island connector will do nothing to alleviate the Lowcountry's wretched traffic problems -- and they are probably right. Check out their artist's rendering of what the intersection of Folly Road and the Mark Clark would look like (at right). Makes the Vegas strip look environmentally palatable.
A better idea, they say, is a light rail system running along the Interstate 26 corridor. And the money currently held for the Mark Clark could make that possible.
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