Letter: Boundary Street plan unworkable
Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling and City Council will be derelict in their duty if they do not salvage the Boundary Street project from the depths of a civil engineering massacre.
Bury all the wires. Build the 12-foot promenade sidewalks. Build the boardwalk to Spanish Moss Trail. Put up the streetlights. Build the “road to nowhere” — Hogarth Street. Just please, please do not destroy the middle turn lane, leaving drivers with an abomination of unworkable U-turns.
Our poor but well-paid scape-goat-in-chief pointed out how hard it was keeping 38,000 daily drivers safe from each other without a left-turn median. Really?
Most drivers think the orange barrels from Hades are only temporary. They are. They will be replaced with a curb, a median, and palmetto trees. We will have the prettiest, non-working entryway in the Southeast.
But wait! The city will be able to write 2,600 more traffic tickets per year. Wrecks are way up and will likely stay up.
Most importantly, absolute driver frustration and disbelief in good governance will continue to rise.
C. Allen Henry
St. Helena Island
This story was originally published May 13, 2016 at 10:09 AM with the headline "Letter: Boundary Street plan unworkable."