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SCDOT updates Roadway Design Manual
Last month we reported that SCDOT adopted the Departmental Directive for Complete Streets, culminating a ...
SCDOT adopts Complete Streets policy
Yesterday, SCDOT announced adoption of their Departmental Directive for Complete Streets (their press release here). Read the policy here. Since 2017, the PCC advanced a coalition campaign for the state Complete Streets policy through the SC Livable Communities Alliance. In 2017, we first presented the alarming safety data with partners CCL and AARP. In 2018, […]
Action Alert: SCDOT final policy change
During our final call with the Secretary of Transportation to discuss her draft internal complete streets policy, we arrived at these 2 challenges:1. SCDOT doesn’t want to “hit MPO’s over the head” with systemic, minimum standards of accommodation (IE, near schools), even if locally sensitive to context. Rather, they want to provide a “toolkit” to the […]
2021 Legislative Agenda
This year’s agenda will be driven by our Virtual Lobby Day for Safe Streets! The 2021 Legislative session will prove to be challenging, but PCC doesn’t shy away from challenges. Because of the pandemic, most of Lobby Day will be online, via Zoom, including trainings and meetings, but some in-person meetings may occur (with masks). […]
Action Alert: SCDOT’s MTP 2020!
Tell SCDOT what you think about their Multimodal Transportation Plan! For the next 20 years SCDOT has set their Vision, Goals, Objectives, Performance Management, and Funding Prioritization, and they won’t rethink this for another 5 years. The Palmetto Cycling Coalition read through all 161 pages and formed a comment letter, in coordination with the SC […]
