Now we won’t be diverted into building an expensive, poorly working, incomplete Albatross. 

New plans that will save funds from the oversized single slab bridge, and instead put them into smaller eastbound spans, and downstream congestion and safety relief (e.g. the Median Express Bypass connecting directly to the CIP, with a possible time of day Toll, and others) can now be fairly evaluated.

This would solve the worker commute problem, the congestion and CIP merge problem, would lower environmental load, reduce the Rape of Stoney, AND could be implemented more rapidly, especially if we are clever in the NEPA process. 

Even if we don’t build this all at once, it can be done incrementally if it is planned within a Master Plan covering Bluffton to the CIP, which the present plan avoids. 

Hopefully Town Council (at its 1/9/25 and 1/16/25 meetings) will embrace and fine tune this new path with SCDOT, while educating County Council, AND being transparent with Citizens.

It would be a disaster to waste even more time hunting for $190 million and more tax dollars (perhaps diverted from other worthy projects) to try to revive the failed Titanic of the present plan.