Suicide Merge project is on hold for now

Looks like nobody liked the proposed options, so the County is backing off for now.

” Charleston County Eliminates SC 7 and SC 171 Intersection Improvements Project Charleston County Transportation Development will not pursue the SC 7 and SC 171 Intersection Improvements Project following the latest review of citizen comments. Staff will now design alternative improvements throughout the study area including additional multi-use paths and providing congestion relief. “

https://www.charlestoncounty.org/news/2019/4342.pdf

New automated trash collection coming

If these trucks are anything like the county recycling trucks, they probably won’t fit into the cul-de-sacs (or they’ll try and just tear up curbs, trees, bushes, etc).

Consider moving your trash cans to Charing Cross or Leicester if you live on Paddington or Portsmouth.

Water Outage this Morning

Heads up – the City is doing repairs to the water main under Charing Cross Road this morning and said that they will be turning off the water for what they estimate will be an hour or two.