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CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BUFORT COUNTY AND FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES.
UM, THE NEXT PART IS COMMENTS FROM THE CITIZENS.
SO IF ANY OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO US, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
SAY WHO YOU ARE AND WHO YOU REPRESENT.
ANY, ANYBODY WANNA TALK? YES, SIR.
SO, UM, AND WE WILL MOVE ON WITH THE REST OF THE AGENDA.
UH, OLD BUSINESS IS AN UPDATE ON THE BEAUFORT COUNTY CORRIDOR STUDIES.
KEVIN SULLIVAN IS HERE TO TALK TO US ABOUT IT.
UM, WE'D LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
WE HAVE A LOVELY PRESENTATION FOR EVERYONE.
WE HEARD THAT THIS WAS IN HIGH DEMAND, SO WE WANTED TO, UM, BRING THIS TO EVERYONE'S ATTENTION ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH RESPECT TO OUR CORRIDOR AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT STUDIES IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
UM, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO, UM, NOT ONLY TALK ABOUT THE ONES THAT WERE UNDERWAY, BUT ALSO GIVE UPDATES THE ONES THAT WERE COMPLETED.
UM, SO, UM, EVERYONE HAS IN FRONT OF THEM THE ACTUAL, UH, LIST OF SLIDES, THE OUTLINE FOR THE SLIDES FOR THIS PARTICULAR, UM, PRESENTATION.
FIRST SLIDE IS JUST TITLE PAGE FOR LETTING EVERYBODY KNOW THAT WE HAVE COMPLETED THE STUDIES.
WE HAVE COMPUTER ACCESS MANAGE MANAGEMENT STUDIES, AND WE HAVE SOME THAT'S NOT UNDERWAY FOR BOTH OF THOSE, UM, CATEGORIES OF STUDIES.
WE CAN GO RIGHT INTO THE FIRST ONE.
BUT THERE'S WALKING THE, OH, YEAH, YEAH.
WE SORT OF DID THAT LAST TIME.
PLEASE, PLEASE FEEL FREE JUST TO STOP ME ANYTIME YOU WANT.
UM, I'M, I'M DEFINITELY GONNA TAKE MY TIME.
I'M NOT GOING TO RUSH THROUGH IT BECAUSE, UM, THESE ARE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT, UM, THINGS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE, WALK THROUGH AND RUN.
UM, SO, UH, I HAVEN'T HIGHLIGHTED COMPLETED CORRIDOR STUDIES.
I'M BASICALLY SAYING THAT THE, THE OBJECTIVE FOR US TODAY LOOKING AT THESE CORRIDOR STUDIES WAS TO SHOW WE'VE IDENTIFIED EXISTING CONDITIONS AND ALSO SHOW THAT WE'VE HAD ACTIONABLE, ACTIONABLE CORRIDOR WIDE SOLUTIONS THAT WE, UM, ARE, ARE CONTEMPLATING AT THIS POINT.
IN THE LENS THAT WE WERE LOOKING THROUGH, WE DID THESE PARTICULAR STUDIES WAS HOW TO BEST ADDRESS CAPACITY, SAFETY, AND OR MOBILITY ALONG CORRIDOR.
UM, THE, THE FIRST, UH, STUDY WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT IS THE JOE FRAZIER STUDY.
SO, UM, UH, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH, UM, JOE FRAZIER, UM, IT IS A ROADWAY THAT SITS IN BETWEEN LAUREL BAY IN BETWEEN LAR BAY AND BROAD RIVER.
UM, THEY ARE, UM, A FEW THINGS THAT ARE OF CONCERN FOR US, UM, FOR THIS PARTICULAR CORRIDOR.
UM, BUT WE JUST PULLED OUT THE FACT THAT THERE IS, UM, A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PLAN AND IMPROVED DEVELOPMENTS HAPPENING AROUND THIS CORRIDOR.
SO THAT'S WHY THAT'S A PART OF THE REASON WHY WE STUDIED THIS.
UM, THESE DEVELOPMENTS RANGE FROM INFRASTRUCTURE ENHANCEMENT, SUPER COMMERCIAL AND
UM, AND THEY HOLD THE POTENTIAL TO SHAPE THE FUTURE TRAVEL PATTERNS.
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QUESTION ABOUT THE BURLINGTON PUD THAT ROB MAY KNOW.UM, THERE'S A OPTION FOR COUNTY COUNCIL TO REEVALUATE IT, BUT UNTIL THEY DO THAT, IT'S STILL P SO IT'S LIKE ONE OF THOSE ONE THAT'S NOT GONNA EXPIRE UNLESS WE YEAH.
LESS ACTIONS, TABLE LESS ACTIONS.
HOW, HOW BIG? THAT'S A PRETTY LARGE FUNGO LAND.
THE EXACT NUMBERS IS GOOD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ABOUT A THOUSAND ACRES AND A THOUSAND UNITS.
I JUST, I HADN'T TALKED ABOUT THAT IN A LONG TIME.
AND, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE, UM, THE COUNTY AND THE CITY, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE, UM, LOOKING AT, UM, PARTICULAR PROJECTS, UM, UH, IN AND AROUND THIS, UH, THIS CORRIDOR.
UM, SO ALSO, UM, WE DON'T, WE DON'T WANT TO FORGET ABOUT, UM, UH, THE WALKABILITY AND THE BIKEABILITY OF THIS CORRIDOR.
UM, IT, IT CURRENTLY DOES NOT HAVE, UM, A PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALK, UH, FACILITIES THROUGHOUT.
UM, BUT THERE ARE PLANS TO ALSO INCORPORATE THOSE TYPE OF FACILITIES ON THE CORRIDOR, UM, TO INCREASE THE WALKABILITY AND LIKEABILITY OF THE CORRIDOR THAT THESE ARE EXISTING CONDITIONS, UM, THAT WE HAD TO LOOK AT, UM, BEFORE WE DECIDED ON HOW WE WERE TO IMPROVE THE MOBILITY, UM, AND THE SAFETY OF THIS PARTICULAR COURT.
AND THE NEXT SLIDE IS WE TALK ABOUT ACTIONABLE SOLUTIONS THIS QUARTER.
KEVIN? YES, KEVIN, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, I CAN HEAR YOU.
UH, WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, SAFETY AND, AND ACCESS AND, AND MAKING IMPROVEMENTS, UH, TO THIS CORRIDOR, UH, CURRENTLY WE HAVE COMPLAINTS OF THE SITUATION WHERE THE TRAFFIC THAT COMES OFF OF, UH, ONE 16 HIGHWAY, ONE 16 LAUREL BAY ONTO JOE FRAZIER, ONTO JOE FRAZIER.
AND, UH, YOU COME TO THE ROUNDABOUT.
AND AFTER THE, AFTER THEY LEAVE THE ROUNDABOUT, THE TRAFFIC SPEED IS, UM, IS A, IS PROBLEMATIC TO THE RESIDENTS FROM THAT ROUNDABOUT TO THE CURVE COMING DOWN TOWARD, UM, UH, WHAT'S THAT? THE CHURCH, UH, THE CHURCH ON THE LEFT, UH, MONT CARMEL.
UH, THE, THE TRAFFIC IS, UM, UH, EXCESSIVE AND THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE LIVING THERE, PARTICULARLY ON THAT STRETCH WHERE YOU COME FROM THE ROUNDABOUT TO THAT NEXT CURVE, UH, BY BURY BAPTIST CHURCH THERE, THE RESIDENTS ARE COMPLAINING THAT IT'S HARD FOR THEM TO GET OUT BECAUSE, UH, THE TRAFFIC IS, IS SPEEDING AT SUCH HIGH RATE.
CAN WE, CAN WE LOOK AT THAT AND CONSIDER, UM, SLOWING THE TRAFFIC DOWN, UH, AND IN THAT AREA? YES.
AND, UM, THAT, THAT, THAT ACTUALLY WAS A PART OF OUR STUDY.
WE ACTUALLY LOOK AT, UM, LOOKED AT SPEED AND WE LOOKED AT, UH, CRASHES ALONG THIS QUARTER.
BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES, WE WILL DEFINITELY MAKE SURE THAT WE, UM, WE, UH, ALONE IN ON SPEED, WE HAVE THOSE TYPE OF CAPABILITIES IN THE COUNTY, UM, IN THE OFFICE OF ENGINEERING AS WELL.
SO WE CAN DO STUDIES, WE CAN GO OUT AND DO FIELD TESTS, UM, ET CETERA, UH, TO CONFIRM AND VALIDATE WHAT THE, UH, THE CITIZENS ARE, UH, ARE SAYING.
SO, UM, UM, THIS IS, THIS IS A FEW OF THE ACTION ACTIONABLE, UM, SOLUTIONS, UM, THAT WE, UH, THAT YOU WILL SEE IN THE ACTUAL STUDY.
UM, SO CHEROKEE FARMS IS A DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED AND WILL BE COMING ONLINE SOON.
UM, SO THE FIRST, UH, IMAGE THAT YOU SEE, UH, YOU SHOULD, YOU SEE TWO GREEN BOXES.
AND THOSE ARE, UM, INTERSECTIONS, UM, THAT WE FEEL THAT IF WE IMPROVE, IT WOULD IMPROVE THE MOBILITY AND SAFETY ALONG THE CORRIDOR.
UM, SO INSTEAD OF ALL OF THE TRAFFIC USING, UM, THAT CURRENT ACCESS, UM, UH, TO, UH, BERHAM, UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT CREATING A ROUNDABOUT THAT WILL GIVE DIRECT ACCESS TO CHEROKEE
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FARMS. THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS A PART OF THEIR DUD.UM, AND WE ARE GOING TO IMPLEMENT THAT, UM, AS A PART OF THIS CORRIDOR, UM, PLAN.
SO THIS IS JUST ONE, UM, OF MANY THINGS THAT WE PLAN TO DO IN THE CORRIDOR, BUT OF COURSE, WE COULDN'T TODAY TALK ABOUT EVERY SINGLE THING THAT WE PLAN TO DO IN THE CORRIDOR.
WE JUST THOUGHT WE WOULD PULL OUT A FEW THINGS JUST FOR US ALL TO KIND OF CHEW ON, UM, FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS.
SO, UM, SAFETY, SAFER INTERSECTION DESIGN REDUCES THE PROBABILITY OF SEVERE CRASHES.
UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF AROUND THE BOAT.
UM, SO THAT SPEAKS TO THE COUNTY COUNCILMAN, UM, AND WHAT HE, UH, WAS JUST SAYING ABOUT THE SPEEDS THAT WERE TAKING PLACE ALONG THE HIGHWAY.
UM, UH, UH, SO SAFER INTERSECTION DESIGN REDUCES THE PROBABILITY OF SEVERE CRASHES AND IMPROVES MOBILITY OF THE CORRIDOR.
UM, YOU, YOU, YOU ALL DON'T SEE HERE, UM, WHERE WE PLAN TO IMPLEMENT SIDEWALKS, UM, AND PATHWAYS, BUT PLANNED SIDEWALKS AND PATHWAY IMPLEMENTATION WILL ALSO IMPROVE WALKABILITY THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR AND PROVIDE SAFE ACCESS TO NEARBY RECREATION CENTERS AND SCHOOLS.
'CAUSE WE DO HAVE OUR RECREATION CENTER RIGHT, RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FOR THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT.
AND WE HAVE A SCHOOL FURTHER DOWN, AND WE HAVE A SCHOOL FURTHER TO THE NORTH, CLOSER TO THE LOWER BAY ROAD.
AND WE WANT TO IMPROVE THE WALKABILITY AND THE SAFETY FOR THOSE WHO ARE, UM, UH, USED BIKES TODAY.
DO YOU KNOW WHEN CHEROKEE FARMS WILL START CONSTRUCTION? I, I KNOW THEY NEVER BROUGHT
I BELIEVE THEY'RE COMING IN, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER IF THEY GOT THEIR FINAL APPROVAL OR NOT.
BUT THEY'RE VERY CLOSE TO A, A HUGE PHASE.
IT'LL INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, SINGLE FAMILY AND MULTIFAMILY.
SO THIS IS DEFINITELY CAN HAPPEN SOON.
THERE IS THE PROPOSED T INTERSECTION.
IS THAT WHERE THE EXISTING ROAD COMES IN? YES.
AND IT'S GONNA BE TURNED TO BE PERPENDICULAR RATHER THAN YES.
IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S A, THEY OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, UM, THE SITE DISTANCE, THE PREFERRED SITE DISTANCE, AND THAT WOULD JUST BE A NON, THAT'S NOT GONNA BE A, A LIGHTED NO TRAFFIC LIGHT, NO FULL ACCESS, UM, INTER INTERSECTION.
BUT IT'D BE SAFER BECAUSE ABLE TO PUT A TURN.
THAT'S A LITTLE SLOW AND IT SLOWS IT DOWN.
AND THE PROBLEM IS THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES, UM, COMING IN, YOU LOOK AT BLUFF AND WORK GREAT, BUT WHEN YOU START GETTING A LOT OF TRAFFIC AND A LOT OF CARS, IT'S, IT'S, I MEAN, I, IT IS LIKE BEING IN PARIS,
NO, I MEAN, YOU ZIP IT OUT, RIGHT? I DUNNO.
TRADITIONAL INTERSECTIONS ARE TERRIBLE.
THEY'RE, OH, THEY ARE, POLLUTIONS ARE MUCH WORSE ON, YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT TOO, BECAUSE THE INTERSECTION THAT, UH, THE COUNTY COUNCILMAN WAS TALKING, BUT THE ROUNDABOUT THAT THE COUNTY COUNCILMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT, THAT'S CLOSER TO LOWER BAY.
RIGHT? AS A PART OF THIS STUDY, OUR, UM, WE DID SOME PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING AND WE ACTUALLY HAD THE NEW DESIGN FOR THAT CURRENT ROUNDUP IS JUST TWEAKED A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE REALIZE THAT, UM, IF WE SHIFT THE ANGLES OF HOW THE ROADS COME IN, IT, IT IS ACTUALLY SAFER FOR THE VEHICLE AND ACTUALLY BETTER FOR THOSE TRYING TO NAVIGATE.
SO THAT INTERSECTION IS ONE BEING IMPROVED.
AND OF COURSE, THIS ONE RIGHT HERE, WHEN IT'S BUILT, WE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE ANGLES THAT WE
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION BECAUSE, UM, UM, WE DID FIND THAT THE EXISTING ROUNDABOUT IS PROBLEMATIC AND IT'S PROBLEMATIC 'CAUSE HOW IT WAS DESIGNED.
WE COME THROUGH THE QUARTER THERE.
ANY FUNDING FROM THE ROUNDABOUT AT CHECK FARMS AT THIS POINT? I, I, I, I, I CURRENTLY KNOW, LIKE THE DESIGN PART OF IT IS, IS, IS FUNDING FUNDED OR LY FUNDED AS FAR AS THE CONSTRUCTION AT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT? NO.
CHEROKEE, THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, WAS THAT IN MARK, WAS THAT
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PAID FOR A DE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT? CHEROKEE FUNDS THE ROUNDABOUT.I KNOW THAT THAT IS SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
I'M NOT CERTAIN OF THE COST SHARE, AND I GUESS THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING ASK ENGINEERING.
SO THE, UM, THE NEXT QUARTER OF STUDY, UM, THAT WE, UH, WANNA BRING FORWARD IS THE SC 46 CORRIDOR STUDY.
UM, AND WITH THIS ONE, THIS ONE IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT, UM, BECAUSE, UM, IT'S, UH, IT ACTUALLY INTERSECTS WITH, UM, SC ONE 70.
SC SC ONE 70 IS A MAJOR, UM, COMMUTER CORRIDOR FOR THE COUNTY.
UM, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, THE RED, UM, THE ACTUAL ROAD NETWORK IS BROKEN UP INTO THREE COLORS.
RED IS GREATER THAN 15,000 CARS AS FAR AS THE ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC.
THE ORANGE YOU SEE THERE IS IN BETWEEN FIVE AND 15,000, AND THE GREEN IS, UH, LESS THAN 1500, UM, A DAY.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, THE ACTUAL VOLUMES IS A BIG CONCERN OF US.
LIKE HOW MANY CARS ARE ON THE ROAD IS A BIG CONCERN.
THAT'S THE FIRST, UM, EXHIBIT THAT YOU'VE SEEN.
AND THEN THE SECOND EXHIBIT IS CRASH DATA.
UM, UH, WE, WE, UH, WE CALL IT THIS TYPE OF EXHIBIT, LIKE, LIKE A HEAT, UM, A HEAT SPOT, UM, PARTICULAR, UH, IMAGE.
AND, AND THEN IT SHOWS THE DENSITY OF CRASHES.
SO WHERE, WHERE YOU SEE IT REALLY RED, THAT'S WHERE YOU HAVE MORE CRASHES THAN WHEN YOU SEE IT'S KIND OF LIKE A LIGHT BLUEISH COLOR.
SO IT'S MORE DENSE AT THOSE PARTICULAR INTERSECTION.
DO YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE THESE CRASHES, DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME OF THE DAY YOU'RE HAVING THESE CRASHES? WE DO.
WE, WE DO, WE HAVE IN THE MORNING.
YEAH, LIKE THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT HAPPENED AT ALL ACROSS THE DAY, DAY, NIGHT, UM, AND, AND ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRASHES.
THERE'S SIDE, UM, UM, SIDE CRASHES, THERE, REAR END CRASHES THERE.
THAT'S OUT IN VILLE, RIGHT? THAT IS OUT AND TALKING ABOUT VILLE, THAT AREA.
IT'S NARROW AND, AND, AND IT'S DARK.
AND IT IS ACTUALLY, UM, UH, NOT MUCH OF A SHOULDER.
I, I, I TRAVEL IT OCCASIONALLY AND I JUST, YEAH.
THE INTERSECTIONS, YOU KNOW, ARE LIKE, UH, A LOT OF THE ROADS IN THE COUNTIES, LIKE, LIKE WE HAVE ROADS THAT, YOU KNOW, DIDN'T NECESSARILY, UH, UH, TIE IN, YOU KNOW, THE WAY YOU WOULD NATURALLY WANT TO SEE IT GO TIE IN.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A PART OF OUR STRUGGLE AND CHALLENGES ON THESE TYPES OF ROAD BECAUSE RIGHT.
UM, THERE, THERE ARE SO MANY ACCESS POINTS.
UM, AND TRY TO WRANGLE THEM ALL IN IS, UM, REALLY DIFFICULT TO DO.
BUT WHEN WE DO THESE STUDIES, WE HAVE THE TIME AND WE HAVE THE, UM, THE, UH, THE CAPABILITY TO, TO COME UP WITH GOOD SOLUTIONS.
UM, SO, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, YOU KNOW, VERY HIGH TRAFFIC VOLUMES AND, AND, AND A HIGH NUMBER OF CRASHES.
CRASHES ARE A CONCERN ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
THERE IS ALSO A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF NEW AND IMPROVED DEVELOPMENT.
YOU GUYS DON'T SEE THAT THERE, BUT THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF NEW AND IMPROVED DEVELOPMENT RIGHT AT THAT PARTICULAR INTERSECTION AS WELL.
UM, AND THAT'S GONNA PLACE MORE STRAIN ON THE CURRENT NETWORK.
UM, SO THAT'S OUR EXISTING CONDITION, AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE WITH THIS PARTICULAR CORRIDOR STUDY.
SO WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND LOOK AT SOME ACTIONABLE SOLUTIONS.
SO IF YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS AREA, UM, CURRENTLY, UH, THE ROUNDABOUT IS TWO LANES IN EITHER DIRECTION WITH EXCEPTION, BUT THE WITH EXCEPTION TO THIS PARTICULAR, UM, LEG OF IT.
SO IF YOU SEE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, WE ACTUALLY PROVOKE, UM, PROPOSING A CAPACITY MODIFICATION ON THIS PARTICULAR LEG.
SO INSTEAD OF IT BE, INSTEAD OF IT BEING ONE LANE, UM, WE WANT TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY THERE.
AND THAT CAPACITY WILL REDUCE THE QUEUING THAT YOU WERE SEEING THE ROUNDABOUT.
SO INSTEAD OF HAVING CARS BACKING ALL THE WAY UP, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD ALLEVIATE A LOT OF CUING THROUGH THE ROUNDABOUT AND IT WOULD ACTUALLY INCREASE THE LEVEL OF SURFACE OF THE ROUNDABOUT.
SO THE, SO THE, UH, THE ROUNDABOUT WOULD PERFORM BETTER, THIS PARTICULAR CAPACITY IMPROVEMENT, THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE ON THE LEFT SIDE,
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ON THE RIGHT SIDE, YOU SEE WHERE WE, UM, HAVE, UM, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS, UM, ARE IN PLACE.UM, BECAUSE WE FEEL AS THOUGH WE KNOW WE ARE GONNA HAVE SIGNIFICANT, UM, AMOUNT OF PEDESTRIANS CROSSING THE STREET, UM, WE KNOW THE AMOUNT OF VOLUME, UM, WITH RESPECT TO VEHICLES IS NOT GOING TO DECREASE.
SO OUR QUESTION IS, OUR QUESTION IS, IS HOW DO WE, UM, SAFELY AND SMOOTHLY HAVE THAT INTERACTION BETWEEN CARS AND VEHICLES? UM, AND OUR ANALYSIS SHOW THAT IF WE PROVIDE SIGNALS, UM, AT THESE LOCATIONS, THAT IT WILL PROVIDE, UM, UM, THE SAFETY THAT WE NEED WITH RESPECT TO THE LEFT TURNING LEGAL EQUIP.
UM, SO INCREASING THE CAPACITY AT THE ROUNDABOUT WILL REDUCE QUEUING AS WELL AS IMPROVE LEVEL OF SERVICE.
BUT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW SIGNALS WILL REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CRASHES BY REDUCING THE VOLUME OF RISKY LEFT TURN MOVEMENTS.
SO TODAY, WHEN, WHEN PEOPLE ARE, ARE, UM, LEAVING OUT OF THESE SIDE STREETS, THEY HAVE TO GUESS GAPS.
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE TO DECIDE, OKAY, ALL DO I THINK I HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO MAKE THIS LEFT TURN? UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES.
AND, AND, AND YOU, YOU, YOU MAY HAVE SOMEBODY IN THE VEHICLE THAT IS COURTEOUS.
AND THEN YOU MAY NOT HAVE PEOPLE IN THE VEHICLE THAT'S, THAT, THAT IS NOT COURTEOUS.
SO THAT'S LIKE A RISK THAT YOU TAKE.
BUT WE FEEL AS THOUGH BY IMPLEMENTING THESE NEW SIGNALS AT THESE STRATEGIC LOCATIONS, THAT WE WILL REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CRASHES, UM, UH, BY REDUCING THE VOLUME OF RISKY LEFT TURN MOVEMENTS, AS WELL AS HELP PROVIDE MORE SAFE CROSSING FOR PEDESTRIANS.
SO, AND INSTEAD OF PEDESTRIANS ALSO, TRYING TO GUESS WHERE BEST ACROSS THE STREET, IF WE HAVE LIGHTS THERE, WE HAVE CROSSWALKS.
IF WE HAVE CROSSWALKS THERE, WE WOULD HAVE, UM, A SIGNAL FACE FOR PEDESTRIANS SO THAT THEY CAN COME ACROSS SAFELY.
HOW CLOSE IS THAT TO THE ROUNDABOUT? IT, IT IS, UH, 'CAUSE WE HAVE ISSUES ON SEVERAL ROUNDABOUTS FOR THE TRAFFIC VACCINE TO THE ROUNDABOUTS OR THE RUNWAY.
THAT, UM, THAT WAS CONSIDERED, UM, HOW CLOSE THAT LIGHT WAS, WAS CONSIDERED, AND IT WAS STILL RECOMMENDED TO BE THERE.
SO I, TRAFFIC ENGINEERS BELIEVED THAT WE COULD HAVE THAT TRAFFIC RIGHT THERE.
WHAT I LOVE YOU SAY THAT YEAH, THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERS BELIEVE
SO, I MEAN, AND, AND, AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY, THEY ARE A MAINTENANCE, UM, ISSUE FOR US.
YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE TO KEEP IT MAINTAINED.
UM, BUT THEY DO PROVIDE, UM, A BENEFIT.
YOU KNOW, AND GIVE IT, ESPECIALLY I THINK IF IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM.
THAT'S ONE YOU GOTTA HOOK FOR THAT CAP WHEN YOU TAKE THAT CUT, THAT GIVE ROAD SITTING THERE IS LIKE, THAT'S THE MOST YEAH.
AND THAT'S THE TRADE OFF THAT I THINK, I THINK THAT, WE'LL, WE, UM, WE ARE WILLING TO TAKE, I MEAN, HE'D RATHER HAVE MORE SAFETY FOR THE PEDESTRIANS AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW? UM, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF IT DOESN'T GIVE, UM, UM, A WHOLE LOT OF TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, TO OTHER PARTS OF HOW WE MOVE THROUGH THE CORRIDOR, UM, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE IT, UM, UH, TIME AS WELL AS WE CAN POSSIBLY HAVE IN TIME.
BUT IF WE CAN GIVE A SECOND, IT'S THE PEDESTRIANS ACROSS THE ROAD TO REDUCE FATALITY AND CRASHES, AND THE MAJORITY OF THE TRAFFIC IS GOING THAT WAY ANYWAY.
IT'S NOT GOING RIGHT THIS WAY.
THE HIGHER TRAFFIC IS THE, IS THE NEW, IS THE SECTION WITH THE NEW TURN LANE MM-HMM
COMING INTO, IS THAT A NEW TURN LANE INTO NEW RIVERSIDE, OR IS IT THERE NOW? WELL, THE, THE ACTUAL, THE ACTUAL CHANNELIZED, RIGHT? THAT'S, THAT'S THERE NOW, BUT THE ACTUAL INSIDE THE INSIDE SECOND THROUGH LANE, THAT'S THE NEW ONE.
BUT THE, BUT THEY DO ALREADY HAVE THAT DEDICATED INTO NEW RIVERSIDE, RIGHT? YEAH.
AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THESE ARE A FEW OF THE THINGS.
THIS IS LIKE A HIGHLIGHT OF THE THINGS THAT WE PLAN TO SCORE, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THIS PARTICULAR COMMUNITY WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT THE ACTION THAT WE'RE TAKING OR PLAN TO TAKE.
SO THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO BRING GUESS THAT QUESTION IS, SO ARE THESE, ARE THESE ADJUSTMENTS ALREADY FUNDED AS WELL? THEY ARE NOT FUNDED.
UM, BUT, UM, UH, THEY MAY, THEY MAY, UH, THEY ARE AT THE PRIORITY LEVEL.
THEY WILL BE PRIORITIZED TO BE FUNDED, UM, BECAUSE OF THE STUDY.
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SO THAT'S PRETTY, THAT'S REALLY WHAT OUR STUDIES DO.IT, IT, IT, IT LETS US KNOW IN THE SHORT TERM WE NEED TO DO THIS.
UM, AND I, I DEFINITELY WANT TO, I DEFINITELY DON'T WANNA SPEAK OUT OF TURN, BUT I KNOW THAT THE ROUNDABOUT ONE IS THE TOP FERRARI.
UM, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I, I'VE BEEN IN A FEW MEETINGS AND I'VE HEARD THAT THE ROUNDABOUT IS VERY, IS VERY PRIORITY.
IT'S GONNA REQUIRE REFERENDUM TYPE FUNDING OR AS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FACILITIES.
I I BELIEVE THE ROUNDABOUT WOULD BE OVER 300,000.
THAT'S ANY CASH, RIGHT?
UM, SO THE NEXT, UM, STUDY THAT WE'RE WORKING ON IS THE US 21 STUDY.
AND THIS IS, UM, A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY BECAUSE THIS IS THE GATEWAY INTO THE COUNTY.
UM, SO, UH, WE HAD TO BE, UM, JUST AS CONCERNED ABOUT, UM, SAFETY AS WE HAD TO BE ABOUT MOBILITY, LIKE GIVING PEOPLE IN AND OUT THE COUNTY.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, UM, THE NUMBERS, UM, YOU SEE, UH, THE BLUE COLOR ON US 21.
AND THAT'S TALKING THAT, THAT'S SHOWING US ABOUT $15,000, 15,000, UH, CARS, UH, AVERAGE ANNUAL PT, UM, THE TRAFFIC IN THE GREEN 22,000.
AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE RED THAT'S IN BETWEEN, UH, THE INTERSECTION AT THE MAIN MARIE COURT AIR STATION AND PARA SOUTH GATEWAY, YOU SEE ABOUT 30,000 VEHICLES ON AN AVERAGE DAY, UM, THROUGH THAT SEGMENT OF THE CORRIDOR.
SO VOLUME IS A CONCERN OF US AND OF OURS.
AND ALSO, COLLISIONS IS ALSO A CONCERN OF OURS IN THIS PARTICULAR CORRIDOR.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER HEAT MAP THERE THAT SHOWS YOU WHERE THE DENSITY OF THE COLLISIONS, UM, ARE HAPPENING ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
THIS ISN'T COMPLETELY 21 THEN.
THE, UH, THE LIMITS WAS FROM, YEAH.
IT WAS FROM US 17 TO NEIL ROAD.
BECAUSE THE PARA ON GATEWAY WAS RE-DESIGNATED 21 FOR TRUCK TRAFFIC.
IT OF WOODSBRIDGE OF JUST BOOM.
IT'S NOT REALLY COMPLETELY 21.
SO, UM, THE, THE NUMBERS ARE ALL THERE.
OVER HALF OF THE COLLISIONS WERE LISTED AS NON JUNCTION, MEANING THAT THEY DID NOT OCCUR AT INTERSECTIONS, WHICH MEANS THAT LIKE, LIKE WE WERE HAVING, UM, UH, ACCIDENTS NOT AT PLACES WHERE PEOPLE CAN SAFELY CROSS.
SO PEOPLE ARE CROSSING THAT PLACES WHERE THEY'RE NOT CROSSWALKS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THEY'RE CROSSING THAT PLACE, NOT CROSSWALKS.
THEN BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC IS NOT EXPECTING THEM TO BE THERE, THEN WE'RE HAVING ACCIDENTS THERE.
WELL, ONE OF YOUR WORST PLACES ON 21 IS RIGHT THERE WHERE THE TOYOTA PLACE IS.
YOU TRY TO MAKE A LEFT HAND TURN OUT THERE, YOU'RE TAKING YOUR LIGHTS AND YOUR CURB.
THE THREE DAYS AGO, IT WAS FUN, RIGHT? COME BACK.
IT'S INTERESTING THAT THE LARGEST NUMBER OF FATAL COLLISIONS WERE SEEN ON SATURDAYS AND MONDAYS.
THAT'S THE WHOLE SATURDAY LATE FOR TRAVEL.
UM, THE THINGS THAT WE DON'T, YOU KNOW, NOBODY LIKES, NOBODY LOVES, OF COURSE, IF FATALITIES LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE, LIKE WE HAVE NO, YOU KNOW, NO, UM, NO, UH, NO PATIENCE FOR THAT.
YOU KNOW, LIVES ARE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
LIVES ARE VERY, UM, PRECIOUS TO US.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR, OUR CORRIDOR STUDIES ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, HONING IN ON THE FACT THAT WE WANT TO SLOW THINGS DOWN AS WELL.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, AT, IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CORRIDOR, IT MAKES NO SENSE TO CHANGE IS SPEED LIMIT BECAUSE, UM, IT'S ACTUALLY, UH, THAT PART MOVING TRAFFIC THROUGH.
UM, BUT WHEN YOU GET TO AREAS WHERE YOU HAVE MORE, UM, INTERACTION WITH VEHICLES, YOU HAVE MORE DEVELOPMENTS, THEN CONGESTION.
IT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE TO THINK ABOUT SLOWING THE TRAFFIC DOWN.
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UM, AND THAT'S ALSO BEEN A CONSIDERATION.AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, RECENTLY WE, WE, WE ACTUALLY CHANGED THE SPEED LIMIT, I THINK RIGHT AFTER THE ARMY FLOOR AIR STATION WE THERE AND BRUCE CASE ALL, I THINK WE DROPPED IT 45 AND WE WENT BACK UP FOR THAT PARTICULAR REASON.
THERE'S A NEW 55 SECTION, I BELIEVE.
SO WE ARE, UM, UM, IN TUNE WITH WHAT WE NEED TO DO WITH RESPECT.
UM, THE NEXT SLIDE TALKS ABOUT, UM, ACTIONABLE, UM, SOLUTIONS.
AND BASICALLY, UM, WHAT WE WANNA DO IS WE, BECAUSE PARA, UM, UM, BECAUSE US 21 IS THE GATEWAY INTO THE, UM, THE, UH, THE CORRIDOR, OUR, UH, ANALYSIS, UM, SHOWED US THAT INCREASING MOBILITY WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT ALONG THE CORRIDOR.
UM, AND IT, IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT BECAUSE, UM, IT'S A GATEWAY INTO THE COUNTY, BUT IN ORDER TO INCREASE MOBILITY, WE HAVE TO DESIGN SAFER IN INTERSECTIONS ALONG THE CORRIDOR.
SO, UM, IMPLEMENTING GEOMETRIC IMPROVEMENTS AT CERTAIN LOCATIONS WITH OUR WIDENING, UM, PROVIDES A NETWORK LEVEL RELIEF.
AND WHEN WE SAY NETWORK LEVEL RELIEF, UM, THE, THE FIRST INTERSECTION IS US 21 AND PARIS, VERY SOUTH GATEWAY.
WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THAT INTERSECTION.
BUT WHAT WE ARE CONTEMPLATING WITH THIS PARTICULAR CONCEPT, UM, YOU, YOU SEE THAT IF YOU WANT TO GO TOWARDS, UM, THE AIR, THE AIR STATION, AND YOU'RE ON PARIS ISLAND GATEWAY, UM, AND YOU'RE AT THE LIGHT, WE HAVE A DOUBLE LEFT.
WE'RE CONTEMPLATING THE DOUBLE LEFT THERE, AND THEN ONE, RIGHT.
IF YOU WANNA GO THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE ON, ON, ON 21, UM, THERE, THERE'S NO LEFT TURNS ON THE PARIS ISLAND GATEWAY.
WE, WE'LL, WE'LL CONTEMPLATE WHETHER OR NOT, UM, IT WOULD BE BEST TO JUST KEEP TRAFFIC MOVING ALONG THERE AND THEN HAVE LEFT TURNS MAYBE AT BURTON HILL, OR CREATE ANOTHER PLACE WHERE WE CAN HAVE LEFT TURNS A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD, LIKE CREATE, UM, A WHOLE OTHER ALTERNATIVE.
BUT WE CAN MAKE
AND THAT THE ARROW, THE PEOPLE COMING TOWARDS TOWN TURN RIGHT.
UM, THEY STOP, THE LIGHTS STOP AT FOR A REALLY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, AND IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY CHANGE ALL THE LIGHTS.
SO PEOPLE JUST MAKE THAT RIGHT TURN AND YOU CAN'T SEE 'EM COMING.
SO THEY NEED A REAL SIGNAL, PEDESTRIAN, PEDESTRIAN FOR THE, SO PEOPLE CAN GET ACROSS.
SOMEBODY'S GONNA GET KILLED THERE.
I MEAN, THAT'S ONE OF THE WORST ONES.
SO, SO, UM, I WOULD THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT.
SO THE, UM, OUR, OUR HIGHWAYS AND OUR ROADWAYS, THEY'RE ALL CONNECTED.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE TO ZOOM OUT, WE WOULD SEE ROADS COMING IN AT NINE DEGREE ANGLES, ROADS CROSSING, ROADS INTERSECTING.
AND AS A COMPOSITE, THEY'RE CALLED OUT NETWORK.
UM, AND THIS, THIS, FOR THIS PARTICULAR INTERSECTION, THERE'S THE HIGH, THERE'S A HIGH DEMAND.
SO IT'S SORT OF LIKE YOU HAVE, UM, A, UH, UM, A, UH, A CHARGER AND IT HAS FOUR SOCKETS IN IT.
AND IF YOU HAVE, UM, FOUR SOCKETS ACTUALLY IN THAT PARTICULAR CHARGER, THEN IT'S AT FOUR DEMAND.
LIKE, YOU, YOU, YOU CAN'T REALLY ADD ANOTHER ONE TO THAT.
BUT IF YOU, UH, MODIFY THAT SOCKET TO BE A SIX, YOU KNOW, UH, SOCKET, SOCKET, THEN THAT INCREASES THE ACTUAL, UM, NETWORK, UM, ABILITY.
SO IN, IN, IN THAT EXAMPLE, ALL I'M TRYING TO EXPLAIN IS THAT IF WE, UH, TAKE THE, THE LEFT, THE LEFT HAND TURNS FROM ALL OF THE US 21, THAT WILL REDUCE THE DEMAND FOR THAT PARTICULAR INTERSECTION.
UM, BUT WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE UP THAT DEMAND SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE NETWORK.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT THAT, UM, CONCEPT IS ABOUT.
AND THE SECOND ONE ON THE RIGHT IS, UM, BROOK ROAD.
UM, THAT ONE IS RIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION OF WHERE WELL, BRANCH SCHOOL IS.
THE SCHOOL CAN SIGNALIZING THAT YES.
SIGNALIZING THAT PARTICULAR CLOSE TO THE BRIDGE.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE ARE CONTEMPLATING THIS PARTICULAR, UM, INTERSECTION IS NOT AS WELL FOR THE SAME EXACT RACE.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, UM, A LARGE AMOUNT OF, OF BUSES, VEHICLES ROAD, AND YOU THINK THAT THIS INTERSECTION DESIGN WILL MAKE IT SAFER.
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KEVIN, KEVIN, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.UH, LET ME GO BACK TO, UH, THE, UH, 21 AND PARIS ISLAND GATEWAY INTERSECTION.
SO IF THE TRAFFIC IS COMING OUT OF THE CITY OF BEAUFORT, HEADING NORTH TO THE AIR STATION, WHEN THEY GET TO, UH, UH, PARIS ISLAND GATEWAY, UM, THEY DON'T MAKE A LEFT TURN THERE.
THEY HAVE TO GO DOWN AND MAKE A U-TURN AND COME BACK TO MAKE THAT RIGHT TURN ONTO PARIS OIL GATEWAY.
IS THAT WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED? NO.
WELL, UM, WE, WE WE'RE ACTUALLY, UM, AND WE CAN GET INTO THIS IN IN INTO MORE DEPTH MAYBE A LITTLE LATER ON, BUT OUR, OUR, OUR THOUGHTS WITH THIS PARTICULAR CONCEPT, UM, OF COURSE WE, WE LOOKED AT A, A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT CONCEPTS.
BUT OUR THOUGHTS WITH THIS CONCEPT IS MAYBE, UM, HAVING THEM MAKE THE LEFT AT BURTON HILL, THAT AND ACTUALLY PUTTING THE SIGNAL AT BURTON HILL AND HAVE THEM MAKE THE LEFT THERE IF THEY WANT TO MAKE THE LEFT THE SIGNAL THAT YES.
YEAH, THEY WOULD, THAT'S TWO LIGHTS YOU GOTTA GO THROUGH SILENCE.
SO, SO, SO INSTEAD OF MAKE THE, UH, LEFT HERE, COUNCILMAN, HE WOULD, HEY, WE, WE WOULD THAT DEMAND FROM THIS INTERSECTION, BECAUSE THIS INTERSECTION IS SO, SO, SO MUCH IN HIGH DEMAND, WHICH MEANS THAT IT IS STRAINED, UM, ESPECIALLY BASED OFF THE 2040 TRAFFIC NUMBERS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WE, UM, THOUGHT THAT IF WE, UM, BREAK UP THAT DEMAND AND SHARE THAT DEMAND WITH THE BURTON HILL INTERSECTION, THEN THEY COULD FUNCTION BETTER THAT WAY.
SO THAT'S JUST ONE CONCEPT IDEA WITH THAT, THAT, THAT WAY CONTEMPLATING THIS, IF YOU DO AT BURTON HILL, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE A LONG, UM, LANE FOR LEFT HAND TURNS.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO APPROVE ALL OF BURTON HILL, AND WE'RE HAVING A CONVE BACK TO PARAS GATEWAY.
YOU ALSO IN PARAS GATEWAY, IS THAT CUTTING RIGHT IN FRONT OF OR ACROSS YOUR REFUEL REFUEL, YEAH.
THIS, THIS, THIS PARTICULAR DESIGN, THIS, THIS PARTICULAR DESIGN IS, IT WORKS WITHIN THE S-E-D-O-C RIGHT AWAY, SO OKAY.
SO, SO, SO WE WOULDN'T BE ASKING FOR RIGHT AWAY.
UM, AND IF WE DO IT, IT'D BE A SMALL CENTER, AND THEN COMING OFF OF THAT PARA AND GAVE THAT TURN GOING RIGHT SOUTH, THEN WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE TURNING INTO REFUEL? IS THAT GONNA CREATE A PROBABLY HAVE TO GO TO THE INTERSECTION.
RATHER THAN, I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE A CUT.
AND THEN THE WHOLE AREA WOULD HAVE TO BE REWORKED, RIGHT? LIKE THOSE, THOSE ACCESS ROADS AS WELL.
IT'S THE TRAIL, THE TRAIL CROSSING THERE.
AND, AND, AND, AND, AND JUST, JUST SO EVERYBODY KNOWS, LIKE THESE, THESE, THESE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE, THEY'RE NOT EASY PROBLEMS TO FIX.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE HARD.
UM, AND SOME OF 'EM WON'T BE EASY TO SWALLOW, BUT WE STILL HAVE TO PRESENT THE BEST POSSIBLE, BEST POSSIBLE SOLUTION THAT WE THINK THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, WE CAN LOOK FORWARD.
UM, FOR THE, UM, PICTURE ON THE RIGHT, UH, THE CONSIDERATION FOR PUTTING A LIGHT THERE, WILL THAT LIGHT BE AT THE INTERSECTION OF 21 AND STEWART POINT ROAD, OR THE INTERSECTION OF 21 AND THE ROAD THAT GOES DOWN TO SEABROOK TO THE POST OFFICE? IT, IT APPEARS THAT THOSE, UH, THAT INTERSECTION, UM, IS A PERFECT T ON THE PICTURE, BUT THE TRAFFIC AT THOSE TWO ROADS, UH, THEY DON'T LINE UP.
SO, UM, OFF THE SCREEN THERE, UM, THAT, THAT, THAT THIS, THIS PARTICULAR CONCEPT IS, IS, UM, REALIGNMENT IS ASSUMING YEAH.
UM, SO, SO IT WOULD REQUIRE INTERACTION WITH THE COMMUNITIES AND PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, IN ORDER TO REALIGN THAT PARTICULAR ROAD AND, AND AROUND, UM, PROPERTIES, UM, YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT NOT LIKE SIGNIFICANT TAKES, BUT TAKES THAT WE FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE COULD BRING FORWARD AND HAVE, HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS AND, AND WE KNOW IT'S NOT GOING TO BE EASY TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, BUT, UM, LOOKING AT WHAT IT CAN PROVIDE FOR THE COMMUNITY, UM, AND ALSO PROVIDE FOR THE PROPERTY OWNERS AS WELL.
UM, WE WILL HOPEFULLY THINK THAT THE PROS THAT WE PRESENT TO THEM OUTWEIGHS THE COMMENTS.
IF I MIGHT FOLLOW UP ON THAT, UH, KEVIN, I CAN,
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I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT OFF THE BAT, THAT'S GONNA BE VERY PROBLEMATIC.I, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE, WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT, YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE KNOW WHAT WE FACING, WE DEFINITELY KNOW WHAT WE FACING.
SO, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR STUDIES HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO SHOW ALL ALTERNATIVES, UM, EVEN THE ONES THAT WE KNOW WILL BE TOUGH TO SWALLOW.
UM, SO THE NEXT, UM, STUDIES THAT WE'RE GOING INTO ARE NOT CORRIDOR STUDY.
THEY'RE ACCESS MANAGEMENT STUDIES.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT.
WE'D BE LOOKING AT HOW TO BEST HAVE TO ADDRESS ACCESS MANAGEMENT ISSUES ALONG THE CORRIDOR.
UM, THE FIRST ONE IS US 2 78, UM, AND, UM, US, UH, 2 78.
UM, THE CONCERN THAT WE HAVE, UM, FOR THIS PARTICULAR ONE, UM, IS CRASHES.
UM, THE, UH, WAY TOO MANY CRASHES ON ELECTRIC 2 78.
UM, AND WE ALSO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE LEVEL OF SERVICES AT PARTICULAR, UM, INTERSECTION.
SO ON THE LEFT, YOU SEE OUR CRASH DATA, UM, AND ON THE RIGHT YOU SEE, UM, THE DELAY.
SO YOU SEE FS, UM, AND YOU SEE DS, AND YOU SEE E'S, UM, JERRY'S REPORT.
AND THIS IS, UM, CURRENTLY WHAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE ANALYZED FOR THIS PARTICULAR, UM, SEGMENT OF HIGHWAY, SO TOO MANY CRASHES AND POOR ACCESS MANAGEMENT IS A MAJOR CONCERN ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
THERE'S ALSO SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF NEW DEVELOPMENT AS WELL ON THIS CORRIDOR, FURTHER UP THE CORRIDOR AS, AS WELL AS A RECONFIGURATION OF THE I 95 INTERCHANGE BY S-C-D-O-T HAPPENING JUST WEST OF THIS PARTICULAR CORRIDOR.
SO THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS, UM, THAT'S GOING ON THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT THIS CORRIDOR.
UM, AND, UM, THE NEXT SLIDE WOULD ACTUALLY SHOW YOU THE ACTUAL LIMITS OF THIS.
THIS PARTICULAR STUDY WE HAVE, WE HAVE A CURRENT STUDY UNDERWAY THAT, THAT IS FROM 95 ALL THE WAY TO SEA PINES AND HILTON AND HILTON HEAD.
BUT THIS PARTICULAR STUDY, UM, THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT, WHICH IS THE ONE THAT IS COMPLETED, UM, THE STUDY LOOKED AT, UM, 2 78 FROM ARJUN BOULEVARD UNTIL THE INTERCHANGE.
IT, IT, IT DOES, IT ACTUALLY TOOK THE TRIANGLE INTO CONSIDERATION, RIGHT? YES.
SO AT THAT, AS WE CAN SEE TODAY, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE SOME SPACING ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO, UM, OUR INTERSECTIONS.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE SOME ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO, UM, LIGHTS AS WELL ON THIS PARTICULAR, UM, PROJECT.
SO POOR ACCESS MANAGEMENT COUPLED WITH SIGNIFICANT TRAFFIC VOLUME THROUGH THE CORRIDOR, WHICH IS ALSO AN EVACUATION ROUTE, UM, IS PROBLEMATIC.
IS THE JASPER COUNTIES WORK ON AR ROAD? ARE THEY GONNA IMPROVE WHERE IT MEETS AT 2 78 AT ALL, OR? YES.
UM, THAT INCLUDES A TRAFFIC LIGHT AT ARJUN.
YEAH, IT ACTUALLY ALL COINCIDE.
SO, UM, UM, AND THAT'S A GOOD POINT TOO BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, UM, HAVE ESTABLISHED COMMUNICATIONS WITH OUR PARTNERS IN OTHER COUNTIES, AND WE HAVE THAT, UM, THAT THAT REPORT WITH THEM.
AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE TO DO CROSS-JURISDICTIONAL, UM, MEMORANDUMS AND IGAS, UM, BECAUSE WE ARE SHARING THIS BURDEN TOGETHER BECAUSE THEIR CONSTITUENTS IN OUR CONSTITUENTS BOTH HAVE USED IT.
THAT'S, THAT'S A VERY GOOD POINT.
UM, WITH RESPECT TO THIS PARTICULAR CORRIDOR, WE TALK ABOUT FUNDING AND IMPROVEMENT FOR IT.
UM, UH, UM, IT'S GOING TO BE SHARED CERTAINLY OFF SCREEN.
YOU DON'T SEE THE HUGE DEVELOPMENT SUCH AS FOR COUNTING.
SO THE, THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS AN ACTIONABLE SOLUTION, UM, AND THIS ACTIONABLE SOLUTION, AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, THERE'S THREE LANES THERE INSTEAD OF TWO LANES.
SO THIS SOLUTION, UM, IS SHOWING THAT, UM, WE ARE GOING TO WIDENING, WIDEN, WIDEN THE ROAD FROM TWO LANES TO THREE LANES.
AND, UH, WIDENING PROVIDES A LOT OF BENEFITS, UM, FOR US THROUGH THIS PARTICULAR, UM, SECTION OF 2 78, UM, UH, WIDENING PLUS THE LOWERING PLUS THE LOWERING OF SPEEDS,
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UM, PLUS ADAPTIVE SIGNAL IMPLEMENTATION PLUS IMPLEMENTATION OF GEOMETRIC IMPROVEMENTS, UM, AT INTERSECTIONS SHOULD CUT THE LANE AT THE INTERSECTIONS AND REDUCE THE NUMBER OF SEVERITY OF CRASHES ALONG THE CORRIDOR.SO INTERSECTIONS, THIS IS, THIS IS SUN CITY.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS THE INTERSECTION WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE A WIDENING THROUGH THERE, THERE WOULD BE THREE LANES, UM, BUT IT'S CALLED, UH, A BOW TIE INTERSECTION BECAUSE YOU SEE THE RED STRIPED OUT PORTIONS TO, TO THE TOP, THE TOP LEFT AND THE BOTTOM, RIGHT? MM-HMM
THOSE ARE, UH, MERGING LANES THAT MERGE TODAY.
UM, BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR IMPROVEMENT, UM, THE, THE, OUR ANALYSIS SHOW THAT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE THE ME LANE BECAUSE THOSE EMERGING LANES AFFECT THE FULL TRAFFIC.
SO, AND IN THIS PARTICULAR ANALYSIS, WOULD WE FEEL AS THOUGH IF WE TAKE THOSE OUT AND WE MAKE THOSE GEOMETRIC IMPROVEMENTS AND IT, THE, THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC, UH, WILL BE BETTER, BUT OFTEN THEY WILL CUT THE DELAY ALONG THE CORRIDOR BECAUSE CARS JUST COMING THROUGH DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO SLOW DOWN RIGHT AFTER THEY PASS THE LIGHT TO SEE IF SOMEBODY IS COMING IN.
SO, SO THAT, THAT WORKS WELL HERE, NECESSARILY SAYING THAT THAT'S GONNA WORK EVERYWHERE ACROSS THE CORRIDOR, BUT AT THIS PARTICULAR LIGHT, IT WORKS WELL.
SO WOULD THERE BE NO TURNS ON THE HEAD, UM, OR, UH, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO MERGE WITH RIGHT BACK THAT WILL, I KNOW THEY'RE GONNA HAVE PROTECTED LIFTS, SO RIGHT.
THE LESS DEFINITELY MIGHT BE PROTECTED.
UM, AS FAR AS THE REDS, NO TERMS ON REDS.
I, I THINK THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, THE DATE WE, WE, WE MAYBE ALLOW IT, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF S-E-D-O-T, UM, BUT THAT WOULD BE A CALL BY OUR CHILD WOULDN'T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PEOPLE TRYING TO PULL INTO TRAFFIC ONCOMING TRAFFIC RIGHT ON RED.
WOULD SEEM TO ME TO BE MORE DANGEROUS EMERGING.
BUT IF IT'S TOTALLY PROTECTED WITH NO TERMS, THEN THAT WOULD MAKE IT SAFER, THAT'S FOR SURE.
NOT SURE HOW IT DOES FROM THE STANDPOINT OF FLOW COMING OUTTA SUN CITY.
'CAUSE THAT WOULD SLOW DOWN THEIR ABILITY TO GET 2 78.
DOES THE STATE HAVE THIS ON THEIR LIST, THEIR LIKE ROAD LIST? ARE THEY ACTUALLY GONNA FUND ANY OF THESE OR THESE, LIKE AT THE TOP? I BELIEVE SIX, I BELIEVE.
UM, I, I'M, I, I, I, I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE.
UM, BUT I DO KNOW THAT, UM, IT'S ON
I, IF YOU STOP ALL THESE MEETINGS,
SO, UM, BUT, UM, BUT, BUT, BUT FOR YOUR QUESTION, UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT, UM, PROVIDING, UM, WHAT THEY CALL A, A ADAPTIVE, UM, SIGNAL IMPLEMENTATION HERE TOO.
AND THAT'S BASICALLY, UM, UH, A SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE SIGNALS SYNCHRONIZED AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE DEMAND IS HIGH, THEN THEY'RE SET TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN GET AS MUCH TRAFFIC THROUGH AS SAFE AS WE CAN.
AND WHEN DEMAND IS LOW, THAT, THAT THE REDS AND THE GREENS AND THE YELLOWS ARE TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN GET ENOUGH TRAFFIC THROUGH, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT'S LOW.
FIRST ONES JUST HAVING TO SET ON ONE PARTICULAR THING AND WHEN TRAFFIC IS HIGH, THINGS MAY BE YEAH.
SO WE, WE ALL PLAN TO UTILIZE ADAPTIVE SIGNAL IMPLEMENTATION COMPARED TO, AND THAT'S GONNA OPTIMIZE THE TRAFFIC IS, AND THAT'S GONNA CUT THE DELAYS, THEORETICALLY.
I TRY TO BE AN
UM, SO THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS, YOU KNOW, UH, TYPES OF INTERSECTIONS THAT WE THINK THAT WE COULD USE ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
UM, THE ONE TO THE RIGHT IS THE BOWTIES, THE ONE WE WERE JUST, UH, TALKING ABOUT.
AND, AND IT TALKS ABOUT SIGNAL ADJUSTMENTS, UM, AND, AND THE PROTECTIVE LEFT TURN THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND ELIMINATING, UM, LEFT TURN RELATED CRASHES AND ADAPTIVE SIGNAL CONTROL.
UM, AND WE ALSO HAVE THE, UM, IT'S CALLED A CONTINUOUS GREEN TEA.
UM, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS CONTEMPLATED BACK IN 2021, WHEN, WHEN WE DID THIS, UM, STUDY, UM, FOR RG.
UM, WE DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW, UM, NO, I'M SORRY, NOT FOR R BUT FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DRIVE, WE DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW
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IF IT'S GOING TO REMAIN THAT WAY, BUT WHEN THE TRAFFIC, UH, WHEN OUR TRAFFIC ANALYSIS CAME BACK AND SAID THAT THIS PARTICULAR INTERSECTION WORKS WELL AT COMMUNITY COLLEGE DRIVE.SO THESE ARE THE TYPES OF DESIGNS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, WITH THIS STATEMENT OF THE CORRIDOR AS WELL.
UM, ANY QUESTIONS? MOVING RIGHT ALONG TO BLUFFTON PARKWAY.
UM, BLUFFTON PARKWAY, UH, ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN, UM, HAS BEEN COMPLETED.
UM, AND AS YOU CAN SEE THERE IN THE HIGHLIGHTED VERSION, THE COUNTY DESIRES TO UPDATE THE CURRENT ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN AND FURTHER DEVELOP AN ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE REMAINING SECTION OF PLEASANTON PARKWAY TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND OPERATIONS OF THE CORRIDOR.
UM, SO THE CURRENT PLAN, UM, BEGINS AND, UM, AT, UH, AT TWO 78TH, UM, AND IT STOPS AT BUCK WATER PARKWAY, AND THIS ONE PICKS UP AT BUCK WATER PARKWAY.
IT GOES ALL THE WAY TO, UM, STUDYING THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE PARKWAY IS NECESSARY TO IMPROVE THE RELIABILITY OF THE CORRIDOR.
SO, UM, RELIABILITY IS A KEY WORD.
UM, AND, UM, WE ARE, UM, HOPING, UM, THAT WITH THIS PARTICULAR, UH, ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT WE PUT TOGETHER, THAT WE MAKE THIS CORRIDOR MORE RELIABLE FOR THOSE WHO ARE USING IT.
UM, THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS US AN EQUITABLE, UH, SOLUTION.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE THERE, THAT'S, UM, WE HAVE BUFFING PARKWAY, VILLE ROAD, UM, AND THEN THERE'S A, THERE'S A RED CIRCLE THERE, UM, ON THAT LEFT SIDE, ON THAT RED CIRCLE, UM, THAT IS A FULL ACCESS, UM, UH, UH, INTERSECTION, BUT THERE'S NO LIGHT THERE.
SO WHEN WE SAY FULL, THAT MEANS THE SIDE STREETS, THEY CAN COME OUT, THEY CAN MAKE A LEFT, THEY CAN MAKE A RIGHT.
AND IF YOU WANT TO TURN INTO THE SIDE STREETS, YOU CAN, YOU MAKING THAT LEFT END IS PERMITTED.
SO, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE THERE, WE ARE, UM, UH, UH, WE HAVE RIGHT AND RIGHT OUTS, UM, BEING PLANNED, UM, FOR CERTAIN SIDE STREETS.
UM, BUT THAT THE YELLOW DOTTED LINE IS PROPOSED.
AND BAGGAGE ROADS ALSO TAKE THE DEMAND OFF OUR NETWORK.
SO IT'S MORE OF A DEMAND RELEASE.
IT TAKES THE STRAIN OFF THE NETWORK SO IT CONNECTS THE GRIDS.
SO INSTEAD OF HAVING ALL THE CARS USED IN BLUFF BLUFFTON PARKWAY, IF WE CAN PULL 200, 300 CARS OFF BLUFFTON PARKWAY, UM, AND HAVE THEM USE A BAGGAGE ROAD, THEN THAT RELIEVES PRESSURE OFF THE NETWORK.
SO IT'S A NETWORK RELIEF MECHANISM.
UM, BUT WE
SO INSTEAD OF HAVING ALL MOVEMENTS HAPPENING, WE WOULD, UM, WE WOULD, UH, RESTRICT THE LEFT TURNING MOVEMENTS OUT OF THERE BECAUSE THEY'RE THE MOST DANGEROUS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE, I THINK IT'S THE PARK IS ON MY SIDE AND THE END MARK ON THE OTHER SIDE.
SO THEY'D BE RIGHT IN RIGHT OUT, AREN'T WE? NO, THEY, THEY'LL BE RIGHT IN, THEY'LL BE RIGHT IN RIGHT OUT.
BUT YOU COULD ALSO MAKE A LEFT IN JUST CAN'T MAKE A, YEAH.
SO IT'S GONNA BE CALLED THREE FOUR.
SO THAT, THAT'S AN ACTION, ACTION SOLUTION.
AND THE NEXT SLIDE IS A CONTINUATION OF THIS SAME ROAD.
I MEAN, I'M SORRY, I'M MEAN THE NEXT, SORRY.
THE NEXT EXHIBIT IS A CONTINUATION OF THE SAME ROAD.
YEAH, IT IS A CONTINUATION OF THE SAME ROAD.
AND WE ARE, UM, RECOMMENDING WRITE IN WRITE OUTS.
UM, THIS PARTICULAR WAS WE ALSO RECOMMENDING, UM, TAKING A HARD LOOK AT, UM, ANOTHER NETWORK RELIEF, WHICH IS THE BACK OF THE ROAD, UM, BEHIND.
AND WE ALSO LOOKING AT WHERE THAT CIRCLE IS CHANGING THAT FROM FULL ACCESS, UM, TO CERTAIN THREE QUARTER ACCESS.
THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING WITHOUT ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN, UM, TO REDUCE THE, THE NUMBER OF CONFLICTS, UM, ALONG THIS ROAD.
AGAIN, UM, A GOOD ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN SHOULD PINPOINT PINCH POINTS.
AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE WHEN YOU SEE THE, UM, THE, UH, THE BLUFFING PARKWAY ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN.
AND YOU OPEN IT UP AND LOOK AT IT, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT WE PINPOINTED PINCH POINTS WHERE THE SYSTEM IS STRAINING, AND WE RECOMMENDED FEASIBLE SOLUTIONS LIKE ALTERNATIVE ROUTES LIKE YOU SEE HERE THAT PROVIDES NETWORK RELIEF.
UM, THE COUNTY WILL USE THIS PLAN AS A TOOL TO ENSURE THE CORRIDOR EVOLVES IN A WAY THAT SUPPORTS GROWTH, SAFETY, AND
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DEPENDABLE TRAVEL FOR EVERYONE.SO WE WANT OUR, WE WANT OUR ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN TO THE CORE GROWTH AND, UM, BECAUSE, UH, WE UNDERSTAND HOW VITAL IT IS TO GET PEOPLE IN AND OUT, BUT NOT ONLY PEOPLE, BUT LIKE TRUCKS, UM, PACKAGES, UM, UH, SHIPPING COMMERCE, IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT MOBILITY TO GET THOSE THINGS IN AND OUT.
UM, SO IF WE CAN BETTER MANAGE THE ACCESS ON OUR CORRIDORS, THEN WE CAN BETTER RESPOND TO THE GROWTH THAT WE EXPECT TO SEE ALONG OUR QUARTERS.
SO THOSE ARE ALL THE, THE, THE ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLANS AND QUARTER STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED TODAY.
NOW THESE ARE THE ONES THAT WE HAVE UNDERWAY.
AND OUR OBJECTIVE, UH, WERE TO IDENTIFY EXISTING CONDITIONS, UH, AND NEXT STEPS.
UM, AND HOW, AND I, IN THE LENS THAT WE WERE LOOKING THROUGH IS HOW TO BEST ADDRESS CLASSES AS WELL.
SO THE FIRST ONE THAT'S UNDERWAY, UM, THAT I AM EXTREMELY EXCITED ABOUT, UM, FOR NUMEROUS AMOUNTS OF REASONS, UM, IS WHAT WE'RE CALLING OUR IT AS MASTER PLAN IS OUR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MASTER PLAN.
SO IT'S SORT OF LIKE THE BRAINS OF THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE ARE GOING TO USE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO ONE EACH OTHER, TALK TO ONE ANOTHER ACROSS BOUNDARIES, UM, BUT ALSO WITH RESPECT TO OUR, UM, KNOWING, KNOWING, KNOWING OUR ASSETS.
UM, SO WE ALL ARE WORKING TOGETHER AND COLLABORATING TOGETHER, UM, IN THE FUTURE TO, UH, TO, UH, TO ENSURE THAT REGIONALLY SPEAKING, THAT WE CAN RESPOND TO, UM, EVACUATIONS BETTER.
WE CAN RESPOND TO THE EMERGENCY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EVENTS BETTER.
WE CAN RESPOND TO THE, THE AVERAGE CRASH ON A BRIDGE BETTER, OR WE CAN RESPOND TO THE AVERAGE CRASH AT A SIGNIFICANT INTERSECTION, LIKE I'D SAY, UH, 2 78 AND 1 78 ON 2 78 AND ONE 70.
UM, WITH THE ITS MASTER PLAN PHASE, WE, WE FEEL AS THOUGH WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO, UM, BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO INCIDENTS AND, UM, THOSE THINGS, UM, IN A, UH, MUCH QUICKER, MORE EFFICIENT, UM, MORE PROACTIVE, UM, AND FASHION.
ARE THE CAMERAS UTILIZED AT ALL RIGHT NOW? YES.
THE, UM, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, S-C-D-O-T, THE CITY AND THE COUNTY, WE, UM, WE, UH, HAVE ACCESS, UH, TO THOSE CAMERAS.
AND, UM, IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO IN REAL TIME CURRENTLY WITH THE CAMERAS? I, I JUST DON'T SEE IT.
I JUST, UM, THE COUNTY, THE COUNTY, UH, HAS, UH, LIMITED CONTROL.
UM, BUT IT, IT IS, IT IS MORE OF A SHERIFF'S OFFICE THING RIGHT NOW.
UM, WOULD Y'ALL CONTEMPLATE HOW THAT MAY CHANGE? BECAUSE IF Y'ALL HAVE THEIR TRAFFIC ENGINEERS AND REALLY IN CHARGE OF THE IPS SYSTEM, IT SEEMED TO MAKE MORE SENSE THAT Y'ALL WOULD HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MONITORING THE CAMERAS AND MAKING THE NECESSARY CHANGES, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC SIGNAL MANAGEMENT OR HAVING PEOPLE RESPOND ON SCENE.
I JUST, RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, I WILL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I DON'T SEE IT IN THE, THE CAMERAS USED TO BE A HIGHER QUALITY AND NOW THEY'RE TIME DELAYED.
I, I, I DON'T UNDERSTAND, I MEAN, JUST HAVE PEOPLE WATCHING THE CAMERAS, BUT I DON'T KNOW, TO DAN'S POINT, HOW DOES IT WORK? I DON'T, SO THIS IS WHAT IS AN IMPROVEMENT TO THAT.
I JUST THINK WE PROBABLY NEED TO EVALUATE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MONITORING THE CAMERAS AND HOW, WHO HANDLES THE RESPONSIVENESS TO THOSE THINGS.
KEVIN, YOU'VE BEEN TO OTHER PLACES LIKE MARYLAND, WHAT OTHER PLACES? WHO ARE THESE KIND OF SYSTEMS? WHO, WHO RUNS 'EM? IS IT, WELL, AND I KNOW IT DEPENDS.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A JOINT OPERATION.
BUT IT, IT, I, IN PLACES I'VE BEEN, IT, IT, IT'S BEEN MOSTLY, MOSTLY RAN BY THOSE WHO OWN THE ROAD LIBRARY ROAD.
SO, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY HAD LIKE A CHART CENTER, AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CENTER.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I SAW THERE.
BUT I, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S MAN 24 7, AND I WORK FOR THE CITY OF BALTIMORE TOO, THAT THEY, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER TOO.
AND I, I THINK, I DON'T, I THINK WE HAVE OUR OWN E OOC TOO AS WELL.
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THIS, THIS IDEA OF MASTERCLASS WANNA LOOK AT THAT TOO, LIKE, UM, IT LOOKS AT POSITIONS, LOOKS AT EQUIPMENT, IT LOOKS AT OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS, UM, AND THEN GO STRAIGHT TO YOUR POINT.LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, SO, SO DEFINING AND REDEFINING THE ROLES AND ESTABLISHING PROCESSES, UM, UH, THAT WILL OUTLAST TITLES.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THE BIG THING WITH THIS.
THIS ITS, WE, WE HAVE TO DEFINE THE ROLES AND WE HAVE TO REDEFINE ROLES AS WELL.
UM, BUT WE WANT TO DO THAT IN A WAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE ROLES OUTLAST TITLES.
SO IF SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, IS NO LONGER IN THAT SEAT, OKAY, HOW DO WE STILL FUNCTION, YOU KNOW, AS WELL.
UM, UM, THAT, THAT IS CRITICAL TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR ITS MASTER PLAN.
SO WE, WE ARE RIGHT NOW IN EXISTING CONDITIONS, UM, PHASE OF IT, UM, OUR, OUR NEXT, UM, STEPS IS TO DO OUR ASSET INVENTORY TO WORK ON OUR COLLABORATION, UM, UH, TO, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR TECH TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES ARE GOING TO BE, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, UM, WE ARE, UH, WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE WITH S-C-D-O-T, WHICH STRAIGHT TO OUR EVACUATION ROUTES.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.
UM, BUT WE ACTUALLY HAVE WAYS TO GO WITH OUR MASTER PLAN BECAUSE THIS IS UNDERWAY, THIS IS INCOMPLETE, THIS.
SO, UM, OUR NEXT STEPS, WE'VE, UM, I'M, I'M SORRY THAT THE, UM, PIECE OF IT IS OFF THE SCREEN, BUT THAT, THAT THAT BLUE, UM, EXHIBIT, YOU SEE IT, THAT IS WHERE WE'VE DONE A, UM, AN, AN AUDIT OF EVERYTHING THAT IS OWNED AND WHO IT'S OWNED BY.
SO THAT WAS LIKE OUR INITIAL STEP TO UNDERSTANDING, UM, HOW ARE WE GONNA MANAGE THESE A, THESE ASSETS OVER TIME, AND WHO'S GOING TO MANAGE IT AND HOW MUCH IS GOING TO BE MANAGED? THAT'S THE LEFT, THAT'S EXHIBIT THE, UM, THE RIGHT EXHIBIT.
UM, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY TALK ABOUT, UM, UM, A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT, UM, OF THE REGION'S CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, IS NECESSARY TO DETERMINE THE GAPS THAT NEED TO BE FILLED TO ESTABLISH AN ALL ENCOMPASSING CUTTING EDGE ITS ARCHITECTURE SOLUTION THAT OUR REGION CAN RELY ON TO EVOLVE WITH THE CONSTANT CHANGES IN TECHNOLOGY OVER TIME.
SO WHAT WE WANT TO BUILD IS, IS WE WANT TO BUILD, UM, A RELIABLE ITS ARCHITECTURE.
SO WE WANT TO BUILD, FOR LACK OF BETTER WORD, SOME TYPE OF STRUCTURE, A HOUSE, A FACILITY.
SO IT HAS TO HAVE A FOUNDATION, IT HAS TO HAVE A FIRST LEVEL OR SECOND LEVEL OR THIRD LEVEL.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE MEANS OF INGRESS AND MEANS OF, UM, EGRESS, UM, AND IT HAS TO BE ABLE TO BE PROTECTED.
ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE A PART OF THIS ARCHITECTURE THAT WE'RE BUILDING.
AND WE ARE IN STAGE ONE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, WE, WE HAVE 171 SIGNALS ACROSS THE REGION OWNED BY S-D-D-O-T IS 102 OF 'EM OWNED.
FOUR OF 'EM ARE OWNED BY THE CITY OF BEAUFORT.
THE HILL HAD 22 OF 'EM IS OWNED BY THE COUNTY AND THREE 13 YEAR 13
SO YOU SEE THE HONESTY, HONESTY.
SO IT'S, IT'S ALMOST 10 AFTER 10.
DOES EVERYBODY WANNA JUST CONTINUE ON OR, I THINK THIS IS, I I THINK THIS IS A, A HUGELY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS ENTIRE DISCUSSION.
YEAH, THEY'RE ON THEIR OWN OVER THERE.
SO, UM, SPEAKING ABOUT EMERGENCY PREEMPTION, YOU HAVE, WE HAVE 57 SIGNALS.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL KNEW THAT WE HAVE 57 SIGNALS THAT AMONG THAT HAVE EMERGENCY PREEMPTION CAPABILITIES.
UM, UH, WE, WE ONLY HAVE ONE FLASH OR RATHER IN THE REGION.
UM, UH, THE, UM, DETECTION CITY SYSTEMS, OUR PRIMARY METHOD IS INDUCTIVE LOOPS ARE THE MOST COMMON VEHICLE DETECTION SYSTEM METHOD.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE VIDEO DETECTION AS WELL.
UM, AND THE PURPOSE IS, UM, THOSE DETECTION SYSTEMS, SUPPORT, SIGNAL TIMING AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.
UM, BUT THEN THAT ALSO GOES BACK TO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING AT US 21 AND BIKES BEING ABLE TO TRAVEL ACROSS AND WHETHER OR NOT CARS, UM, ARE BEING DETECTED.
UM, AND THEN YOU SEE WHAT OUR C OUR CCTV CAMERA OWNER OWNERSHIP IS LIKE THE MAJORITY OF THE CAMERAS ARE OPERATED BY BE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT QUALITY,
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SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE FUSSINESS OF IT.BUT YEAH, MAYBE, MAYBE WE NEED TO GET WITH THEM AND WORK ON HOW WE CAN CREATE A BETTER VISUAL FOR WHAT THEY CURRENTLY HAVE OUT THERE.
UM, THE COUNTY AND TOWN PERSONNEL CAN MONITOR CAMERAS FOR TRAFFIC CONDITIONS, INCIDENT RESPONSE, UM, OF COURSE THAT GO INTO THE DETAIL OF OF THE WHO'S THE HOW IN THE WHAT.
JUST LETTING US KNOW THAT WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO MONITOR THOSE THINGS.
UM, AND UM, OH, I FORGOT TO MENTION THE, THE ITS MASTER PLAN.
THIS IS ACTUALLY, UM, THE LOW COUNTRY AREA TRANSPORTATION STUDIES.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY, UM, UH, HAVE, HAVE FUNDED, BUT THE COUNTY IS MANAGING IT FOR THEM.
SO, SO THIS IS ACTUALLY A REGIONAL STUDY, UM, THAT IS FUNDED BY OUR, UM,
UM, BUT THIS IS VERY, THIS IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
THIS, UM, AND THAT SURE WAS A GRANT.
THIS IS, UM, THIS, THIS TO ME, TO ME IN MY OPINION, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WORK ON OUR CORRIDORS AND WE WORK, UM, IN OUR DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS AND WE WORK ON THOSE SMALL THINGS, UM, THE EVERYDAY THINGS ABOUT IMPROVING SIGNAGE AND IMPROVING, UH, LANE MILES AND, UM, STRIPING ROADS BETTER AND MAKING SURE OUR PAVEMENT IS THERE, UH, TO ME THIS IS ITS INFRASTRUCTURE IS LIKE THE GLUE FOR ALL OF THAT.
LIKE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN, YOU KNOW WHEN WE HAVE THIS IN PLACE AS WELL, LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE, UM, A SITUATION TO WHERE WE ARE ABLE TO, UM, OPERATE MORE, MORE EFFICIENTLY, YOU KNOW, MORE, MORE, MORE THE WAY WE THINK WE NEED TO BE OPERATING.
IT'S A REAL TIME RESPONSE TO IT, WHICH IS WHAT WE DON'T HAVE NOW.
SO WHEN WE GET THE BACKUP OF THE TURN LANE AT NAVAL HOSPITAL AND BACKUP BECAUSE THE WOODSBRIDGE CLOSES AND THEN THE INTERSECTION AT THAT LAY ISLAND DRIVE AND UM, MARINE FOUR ROAD BECOMES INCREDIBLE.
SO YEAH, WE CAN HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE SOMEBODY EYES ON IT, LIKE I SAY, OKAY, MAKE THIS LIKE, WE GET ALL THE PEOPLE THROUGH, WE ACTUALLY THROUGH THEN ONCE THAT'S DONE WORK, WORK WITH IT THAT WAY.
SO, SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE MORE CONTROL OVER HOW OUR STREETS ARE BEING UTILIZED WITH.
WOULD THAT ALSO UTILIZE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? YES.
UM, I KNOW OUR CONTROLLERS WILL AND ADAPTIVE, UH, SAME, WE HAVE GUYS THAT COME IN, UM, TO US AS WELL AS THE ENGINEERING GROUP.
WE HAVE LIKE VENDORS THAT TALK TO US ABOUT OKAY, OUR BACK OF THE HOUSE LOOKING AT BACK OF THE HOUSE THAT TALK TO US ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF AI AND HOW IT WAS AS A COMPANY THAT'S ABOVE NOT.
SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THE ITS MASTER PLAN.
UM, AND IT'S BASICALLY A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT, A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF OUR REGION, OUR REGION'S CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND THE NEXT PAGE GOES INTO US 78.
THIS, UM, THIS QUARTER STUDY, JUST LIKE THE ONE 70 QUARTER STUDY, IS ALSO A LAT STUDY.
UM, SO, UH, THE MAJOR, THE MAJOR CONCERN WE HAVE HERE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, SECTIONS OF 2 78 HAS MORE TRAFFIC VOLUMES THAN INTERSTATE NON PRIVATE TIMES.
SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY, THAT'S WHY WE KNOW WHY GUN IS VERY IMPORTANT.
SO IF YOU WIDEN THERE, YOU'RE ALSO GONNA REDUCE THE MAN.
THEY GOT BUCKYS GOING DOWN THERE, SO THAT'S REALLY GONNA BRANCH MOUSE DOWN THERE.
WE'LL HAVE TO GO TO POINT SOUTH TO GET ON.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF OH YEAH, YEAH.
A QUESTION AND A LITTLE OFF TOPIC, BUT, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THIS IS GREAT UNTIL
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WE HAVE AN ACCIDENT.AND IN, IN YOUR EXPERIENCE, HAVE AGENCIES EVER LOOKED AT ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS AND PROCEDURES? I KNOW TWO THINGS ARE, BUT MOST IMPORTANT PERSONNEL, THE SAFETY PEOPLE ON SCENE, AND TWO, THERE ARE SOME ACCIDENTS THAT ARE SO SEVERE THAT YOU'RE JUST GONNA GET STUCK.
BUT SOMETIMES I AM CONCERNED THAT MAYBE YOU'VE CREATED TOO MANY BARRIERS TO TRAFFIC WHEN THERE ARE NOT SEVERE ACCIDENTS AND WE COULD GET PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAY, OR AT LEAST LIMIT HOW MANY LANES WE BLOCK.
AND I KNOW THIS IS POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMS DISCUSSION, BUT HOW, I MEAN, IF THIS, HAVE YOU SEEN THAT WHERE EVERYBODY, THE AGENCY'S GOTTA GO, WAIT, HOW CAN WE DO THIS BETTER SO WE CAN GET PEOPLE MOVING THROUGH IF IT'S NOT A SEVERE ACCIDENT? WELL, WHAT CAN WE DO IN A TWO LANE ROAD AND THEY PULL A FIRETRUCK UP THERE AND BLOCK ONE LANE FOR SAFETY PURPOSE, THE OTHER LANE WHERE THE ACCIDENTS OCCURRED.
I JUST, I'M JUST WONDERED IF THAT'S EVER BEEN PART OF SHOULDERS, SHOULDERS HELP WITH THAT.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHY LIKE IF YOU HAVE ONE YEAH.
THAT'S, THAT, THAT'S WHY WE ARE WORKING WITH S-E-D-O-T.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT ON A LOT OF OUR LITTLE ROADS RIGHT.
THAT LIKE WE HAVE SHOULDERS BECAUSE SHOULDERS HELP IN THAT SITUATION.
SO IT, IT, IT KIND OF HAS ANOTHER LANE PER SE.
UM, AND THAT'S WHAT THE NEW BRIDGE IS GONNA BE LIKE ON HIM HEADS, YOU KNOW, IT IS, IT IS GOING OPERATE A CERTAIN WAY, BUT IT'S GONNA HAVE LIKE A LARGE SHOW.
WELL THAT, SO WE DO THINK ABOUT THAT.
UM, BUT THE THING IS, IS, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE, EVERY TIME, UM, I THINK, I THINK IN THE
BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT SHOULDERS WOULD BE A LOW COST, YOU KNOW, IN AIR QUOTES.
IT'D BE A LOW COST IMPROVEMENT THAT WE CAN PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, PUSH REALLY HARD FOR ON PLACES WHERE THEY'RE NOT THAT COULD HELP US IN THOSE SITUATIONS.
WE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE GEOGRAPHIC DISADVANTAGE OF HAVING NARROW CAUSEWAYS AND ISSUES THAT CREATE THE DIFFICULTY OF HAVING SHOULDERS.
BUT YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THE SIGNAGE WHERE IT SAYS, WITH NO INJURIES INVOLVED, TRAFFIC REMOVED, ACCIDENT FROM ROADWAY.
LIKE I WAS STUCK ON ST OH LAST YEAR WHEN THAT TRUCK OVERTURNED WITH A DIESEL LIMIT AND WAS STUCK THERE FOR FOUR AND A HALF HOURS WHILE WE WAITED FOR DIRT TO SHOW UP.
THAT'S A PROCESS THAT PROBABLY SHOULD BE REEVALUATED FOR JUST PART OF THE EQUATION.
THE NEXT SLIDE IS JUST SHOWING US THE NEXT STEPS.
SO WE, WE, WE'VE HAD TO KICK OFF, WE, WE'VE COLLECTED DATA, WE WENT THROUGH OUR EXISTING CONDITIONS.
WE HAD ONE
UM, SO WE'RE ACTUALLY BUILDING CONCEPTS FOR, FOR EACH PARTICULAR INTERSECTION, FOR EACH PARTICULAR INTERCHANGE ARE GOING THROUGH A WHAT SHOULD THIS INTERSECTION LOOK LIKE IN 2040? WHAT DO WE FEEL WE NEED TO DO ALONG THIS ROAD, UM, TO MAKE OUR CORRIDORS, UH, UH, BETTER THAN THERE ARE NOW IN THE FUTURE.
SO THAT, THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE WITH THIS PARTICULAR STUDY.
WE EVALUATING ALTERNATIVES AND OUR NEXT PUBLIC MEETING IS GONNA BE IN MARCH.
THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE WITH THAT.
UM, UH, WE, WE BELIEVE THAT ONE 70 MUST FUNCTION AS THE STRENGTH THAT CAN HANDLE CONGESTION SAFETY, UM, UH, CONGESTION, SAFETY AND MOBILITY.
WE DON'T FEEL AS THOUGH, UM, IF WE LEAVE ONE 70 THE WAY IT IS TODAY, WE DON'T THINK IT WILL BE ABLE TO FIND THE STREET THAT CAN HANDLE CONGESTION.
SOME, SOME, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY THAT IT'S NOT HANDLING CONGESTION.
IT'S NOT A STREET THAT FUNCTION LIKE CAN HANDLE CONGESTION TODAY.
UM, SO, SO WE, WE UNDERSTAND WITHOUT IMPROVEMENTS TO SC ONE 70, UM, WITHOUT IMPROVEMENT, SC C ONE 70 WILL NOT FUNCTION AS A STREET THAT CAN HANDLE FUTURE CONGESTION SAFETY.
BUT THAT'S WHERE WE AT, UM, WITH THAT ONE.
SO WE'VE HAD OUR KICKOFF, WE'VE DONE OUR EXISTING ANALYSIS.
WE'VE HAD ONE STAKEHOLDER REVIEW MEETING, UM, AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, UM, ANOTHER STAKEHOLDER REVIEW MEETING COMING UP IN, UM, IN DECEMBER.
AND WE ARE WORKING ON ALTERNATIVE EVALUATIONS AND CONCEPTS WITH THIS ONE AS WELL.
WHERE WILL THAT MEETING BE? DECEMBER.
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OKAY.THEY HAVE CONFERENCE ROOM THERE.
YEAH, IT'S GONNA BE ON THE 12TH.
WE HAVEN'T, WE HAVEN'T SENT OUT, UM, WHERE STARTS, THAT'S WHERE IT STARTS BACK
THAT'S TELLS ME TO TURN NOW TWO AND THEN INTO ANOTHER PROBLEM.
WE JUST TAKES FIVE TURNING HERE THAT WAY ON NINE.
SO, UM, YEAH, THAT'S, THAT, THAT'S THE PRESENTATION.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING AT I SAW THE PUBLIC NOTICE AT SNAKE ROAD.
WHAT? UM, BRIAN, UM, BRIAN HOW OUR DIRECTOR, UM, HE HAD OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING LEAD TRAFFIC ENGINEER GO OUT THERE.
THEY COULD ALL THEIR CONSULTANTS AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE, UH, OPTIMIZING THE SIGNAL BECAUSE THEY, THEY SAW THAT IT WAS SOME LAG TIME AT CERTAIN LEGS.
PEOPLE JUST SITTING AND THEY SHOULDN'T BE SITTING.
WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO WITH JOHN PAUL? I MEAN THE PEOPLE ARE CALLING IN THERE IN THE MORNING.
I MEAN, FROM THE SOUTH, FROM THE NORTH GOING SOUTH IS NOT BAD.
JOHN BALL GOING SOUTH THIS BAD.
BETWEEN THE OLD FIELD LIGHT, THE FOUR 60 LIGHT AND JOHN HALL, THAT'S WHAT'S CAUSING YES.
NOW WITH ALL THAT DEVELOPMENT.
I MEAN IT IS JUST, IT'S A CLUSTER RIGHT THERE.
OFF ROAD YOU OVERPACKING ELEVATOR ROAD BYPASS.
I'VE HEARD JARED SAY EVENTUALLY IT WILL HAVE TO BE, UM, THAT
IF YOU GUYS CAN MAKE IT OUT THERE, YOU, IT INSIDE PROBABILITY, IF YOU SEAT TWO PROPOSED CHANGES ALONG ONE 70 THAT YOU DON'T SEE TODAY, THAT MAY BE THERE AS A CONCEPT.
AND, AND OF COURSE THAT'S LOOKING AT FUTURE TRAFFIC.
THAT'S, IF EVERYTHING IS BUILT THE WAY THAT THEY SAID THEY WANT BUILD IT 20 25, 20 45, THIS LEADERS, BUT I, I HOPE THEY DON'T PUT ANOTHER LIGHT.
IF YOU PUT ONE AT JP TWO, THEN YOU'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, MAKING IT WORSE.
JUST ONE RASH OR THE OTHER, YOU JUST BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
NO, AT, AT, AT, AT JP AT JP TWO THEY WERE MOVE, THEY WERE MOVE THE CURRENT LIGHT THAT'S RIGHT ON THE CURB.
AND I THINK THERE IS GONNA BE SOME SORT OF CONNECTIVITY WHERE YOU DO NEW HOSPICES.
PUSH FURTHER DOWN THE CORRIDOR TO MAKE THE LEFT RATHER THAN THEM ALL THERE.
UM, OUR LAST UPDATE ON THE ITEM IS THE MEETING DATE AND
ARE WE STILL GONNA, ARE WE STILL GONNA MEET ON THE THIRD OR FOURTH? WHATEVER? IT'S FRIDAY.
I MEAN, UNLESS YOU SAY OTHERWISE YEAH, NO MOVING IN DECEMBER.
BUT I, UM, THE DATES FOR JAN FOR, UH, 2026 WERE THE FOURTH FRIDAY GENERALLY, EXCEPT FOR NOVEMBER.
AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO BE BACK AT THE, IN THE COUNTY BUILDING.
UM, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN GREAT HOSTING OVER HERE.
JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE WORK IN TERMS OF THE BROADCASTING.
THAT'S SORT OF A CHALLENGE WHEN THE MEETINGS WITH OTHER PLACES, BUT IF THAT'S AGREEABLE, WE'LL GO WITH THAT SCHEDULE THAT I SET OUT AND, UM, BE MEETING OVER AT THE COUNTY.
ANYBODY, ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY, WE THANK YOU.
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AM DENNIS ADAMS AND THIS IS A BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENT.FORREST GUMP, THE PRINCE OF TIDES, THE GREAT SANTINI.
THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE BIG HOLLYWOOD MOVIES FILMED IN BEAUFORT COUNTY DURING THE 1980S AND 1990S.
BUT THE EARLIEST BIG SCREEN PRODUCTION, A SHOT HERE DATES BACK NEARLY A CENTURY.
LATE IN NOVEMBER, 1917, AMERICAN FEATURE FILMS OF GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA SENT A COMPANY OF ACTORS ON LOCATION TO ST.
HELENA ISLAND AND AMONG THE ANTEBELLUM MANSIONS OF BUFORT.
IN THE WORDS OF THE BUFORT GAZETTE, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERACY IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE AND STUPENDOUS MOTION PICTURE SCENARIOS EVER ATTEMPTED BY ANY DRAMATIST.
IT CERTAINLY WAS A COSTUME DRAMA WITH OVER 640 PIECES OF PERIOD CLOTHING SHIPPED IN FOR THE ACTORS.
JOINING THE PRODUCTION JUST BEFORE FILMING WAS ONE WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM OF PEERLESS FILM COMPANY OF LOS ANGELES.
HE LENT A HOLLYWOOD TOUCH TO THE PRODUCTION.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE FILM HAS DISAPPEARED.
IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE STUDIO EXAGGERATED ITS CLAIMS OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE MOVING PICTURE SINCE THE BIRTH OF A NATION.
I'M DENNIS ADAMS, AND THIS HAS BEEN YOUR BEAUFORT GOTTI MOMENT.
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