County Approves Bacons Bridge Improvements

Dorchester County Council unanimously approved a resolution supporting the county's Penny Sales Tax Transportation Authority project on Bacons Bridge Road during Monday's regular meeting at St. George. 

The town of Summerville passed .

Council also unanimously approved condemning a tract along the road for Phase 2 of the project.

The $25 million project has $17 million in federal funding, according to Donnie Dukes, project manager for the authority, which will foot the rest of the bill. The road plans are expected in the next week, and all right of ways have been acquired for Phase 1 of the project. 

The improvements would widen S.C. 165, also known as Bacons Bridge Road, from two to five lanes with paved and grass shoulders from south of S.C. 61 to Ashley River Bridge and from two to five lanes with curb and gutter from Ashley River Bridge to end of project. It will affect 3.6 miles of Bacons Bridge Road.

Also, the authority will construct a 10-foot multi-use path on the east side of roadway from Ashley River Bridge to Jimbo Road, an eight-foot multi-use path from Jimbo Road to end of project, and an eight-foot multi-use path on the west side of roadway from Sawmill Branch Parking area to end of project.

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