Lands End Road, MLK Drive on St. Helena need to be widened
Lands End Road, which starts out as Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on St. Helena Island, is not an old country road with little traffic anymore. It’s a major thoroughfare for many people.
It’s only a two-lane road with no shoulders, and most drivers average a speed of 60 mph. People travel down this road to get to Fort Fremont and its secluded beach. Tour buses use it to take visitors to the Chapel of Ease and the Penn Center. There are many churches on this road and traffic gets congested during Sunday services or when there are funerals.
Golf carts and huge farm vehicles with swinging metal arms that take up more than a lane of traffic use this road. Bicyclers ride at speeds of about a third of most cars. Many more people have moved to this area to retire. So there are a lot of old-timers driving this road.
Finally, some of the longtime residents still walk on the edges of this road, even at night.
This road has become very dangerous.
We need to widen it, or at least add shoulders on each side. I hope someone at the S.C. Department of Transportation can help.
Dan Wojoski
Saint Helena Island
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