Letter: Flyover improves nothing

While reading your article about the tens of millions of dollars the state has paid due to poorly maintained roads, I can only think about the millions being wasted on the albatross they call the Bluffton Parkway flyover.

It is a bottleneck leading only to more bottlenecks. If, as originally “planned,” the Bluffton Parkway reached all the way to Interstate 95, some semblance of sanity could be granted to the concept of the albatross.

Now what do we have, when completed, if ever? Multiple lanes being clogged down to two lanes, giving us a clear shot to nowhere. Okatie Highway (S.C. 170) doesn’t take you anywhere directly. You can take May River Road (S.C. 46), two lanes winding, by way of several other roads, to I-95, eventually. Or you could backtrack to U.S. 278, certainly a more reasonable route.

Where was the rush to build this flyover before completing Bluffton Parkway? Or how about just spending those millions to correct the horrible condition of our existing roads first?

This story was originally published March 26, 2016 at 8:00 PM with the headline "Letter: Flyover improves nothing."