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This project has not only taken too long, taken out a beautiful handicapped ramp with gate, but also closed our area of the Riverfront Park of the Three Rivers Greenway at the most beautiful end of Columbia Canal and Riverfront Park at the Diversion Dam. We have no access from 2 sides of this popular place where many types of birds come to eat 2 times a day, have missed out on the spring and summer tours of the fish tracking system in SC from here down to the Mississippi and the ocean and back. Joggers, bikers, USC running team, walkers alone or with families, and those who live in housing subdivisions, condos, and nice apartment complexes no longer have egress to our park nor to the rest of the Riverfront Park downtown to enjoy. It's like we NEVER had a park! It should NEVER take this long to build a bridge but fast to destroy what we had and the handicapped people who could go to the park from thew bridge. I wonder how much it cost to place that access there and if it will ever be returned for the handicapped. The way it looks now, it may NEVER be back! Traffic is horrible and hard to get onto Broad River from there nor go from Bentley Drive across to River Drive to Skyland Estates. It has needed a working red light for years not a caution light. We just had a death there several weeks ago from an accident as 2 - 3 cars were involved with one going over into the river. When is this park, handicapped ramp, and bridge no longer going to be MIA (MISSING IN ACTION)!? This is a total travesty, waste of time, taken away from property values, and should have never been redesigned this way. WE almost lost the one side of the bridge last spring from a rain storm with the barge holding a crane leaning towards falling into the almost one side of the completed other end of this bridge!
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Andrew (Registered User)
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Anonymous14 (Registered User)
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Andrew (Registered User)
The bridge is supposed to be finished by June 2013 but we shall see how that works out...
* I screwed up on my original plan, it was originally scheduled to be complete in May 2013 all along
http://columbiaclosings.com/wordpress/?p=6370 has a little humor on it...
Anonymous10 (Guest)
This situation of the Broad River Bridge is STILL UNCHANGED!!!!! IT IS MUCH WORSE!!! How long does it take to rebuild a small bridge? PLEASE ADD MORE COMMENTS TO GET THIS DONE!!! We have roads we can't even get out of our places to get into town for our jobs and doctor appointments or ER at Richland Hospital! It's horrible when the firetrucks and ambulances and police cars go by many times day and night trying to get to where someone needs help or get them to the hospitals or get to the crimes in time or fires. Traffic lights are a rarity for all these drivers going into work and Palmetto Richland Hospital patients.
We can't even take Bentley Drive, go up River Hill Court (not Circle) as the light at the BP and Greystone Blvd. and Broad River are AT the LIGHT! There is NO way to let anyone cross 3 lanes of traffic and not get in a wreck just to jump over at that light onto Greystone Blvd.! Traffic coming out of the top road of Skyland Estates use that extra lane plus traffic coming up Broad River Road from the bridge can't see you nor can you see them in time not to get hit in good weather. If the sun's blocking anyone's eyes coming out of Skyland Estates they can't see that traffic.
We have only ONE traffic light before Bush River Road to turn around and get back into that traffic on Broad River Road. That traffic light is off center maybe on Means Street in Huffman Heights Subdivision with school buses and other traffic going straight, left, or right. It leaves many of us making a turn into the Food Lion Grocery Store shopping plaza hoping to get out safely onto Broad River Road on that right side and tend with going more blocks and more traffic and time and gas wasted
Why doesn't WIS, WLTX, and WOLO....all 3 mention and show this plus question these bozos about this?
We lost 3 years of \normalcy, a fairly new handicapped ramp on the bridge the old mayor dedicated still hanging up in the air destroyed, a closed down park part of Riverfront Park Diversion Dam (near this bridge that almost took out a crane lift on some weird stand from a flood last spring being on that moveable device). We ALMOST had it taken out on on the one new side of the bridge just finished!!!
The Parks and Recreation plan to have a group of people from our city and other places to see the special one of a kind fish channel lots of money was spent on. We lost a top area Columbia Canal walkway and a Broad River lower walkway. Then they closed the park down using iron gates! I know what it is like to be an older person with another with 2 early adults LOCKED inside the park when we couldn't get to our cars in time to leave though the park rangers and SCE&G and police knew we were there with our cars parked out in the open parking lot! It was so very dark there in a high crime area and the soon to be shut down "stripper's club" the police chief said on tv last week and this week the owners re-opened without permission! They haven't had a business license nor a liquor license, but they had gambling machines and shootings and deaths. No one would want to be in that area in the dark at 8:30 p.m. in the summer not able to get out nor a phone number for help. They took their good old time coming to rescue us! Why do we need gates and shut out at 8:00 p.m.? There are lots of lights that were on the walkways and lots of locals who walk to Diversion Dam and the Columbia Canal to fish and take plenty home up the hill from walking the steps of Riverview Terrace where the Roosevelt Village projects were located.
The call boxes are everywhere, BUT that's no where near the exit! It's a drive in and drive out for one lane and so close to the Canal to drive into even if the water is up a little. They need to raise that road NOW while it's closed and widen it to avoid flooding from the Columbia Canal.
This is just so VERY unprofessional to rebuild a bridge with the 4 year Stimulus Money Package to pay for it. Federal Government makes things worse because the average person from a state and area who KNOWS how to do things the right way and are there to monitor these bridges and roads would have had this done in a year at the most. Had some locals not seen that barge on a make shift stand and crane lift falling towards the new side of the 2 lane bridge, it would have ALL been in the drink (Broad River) and over with going down the Saluda River to the Congaree Rivers!!! What all could have been taken out on it's way down there 2 miles?!
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
THERE ARE SEVERAL SERIOUS AND IMPORTANT REASONS FOR WORKING MORE QUICKER OPENING OUR 2 1/2 YEAR BRIDGE PROJECT ASAP: Because of our LONG term bridge DELAY with promises of opening dates unfullfied in rebuilding our Broad River Bridge at Columbia Canal and Broad River STILL NOT finished, here are the reasons below as follows as to why it needs FINISHED A.S.A.P.:
1. It has become an even more accident hazard at the top of the hill at Broad River Road at River Hill Court (Circle). Drivers are trying to cross from River Hill Court (Circle) to get across 3 lanes with blind spots to the lane to turn left near a red light to go to Greystone Blvd. (BP Station, Asian Restaurant, Wray Mazda Volkswagen) and those coming out of Skyland Estates at River Hill Circle.
2. We've had injuries and deaths especially when a car was slammed into and forced over the Broad River Bridge going down to crash into the rocks below (what a horrible death!).
3. People are terribly fearful driving on this bridge from River Drive and Sunset Blvd. coming home from work and doctors office visits at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital.
4. Construction had also closed our ending part of Riverfront Park at the gorgeous Diversion Dam. We have various beautiful birds coming in to feed 2 times a day. It does a lot for anyone to relax and enjoy the beauty of what we all have here in our Greenway Park System.
5. Our 2nd walking path beneath the Columbia Canal was destroyed and disrupted at Broad River can no loner be enjoyed
6. There is no more handicapped ramp into the park at Columbia Canal for handicapped residents who were happy and excited as the mayor and media came with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
7. A special Fish Channel had visitors drive far or walk close-by before who enjoyed during the spring and summer when the park rangers gave tours explaining how unique this is in the state. What a tourism attraction it had been!
8. Businesses are and have closed down from these delays and traffic hazards losing prospective customers.
9. A car wash on River Hill Court (Circle) and Broad River Road near but inaccessible to the traffic light was built for local and driver's passing by between the BP Gas Station and the Asian Restaurant lost so much business, they have been facing foreclosure for over 1 1/2 years. The owner can't sell it or even a parcel of land to anyone next to this car wash to stay in business and pay for its expenses of owning the land.
10. No cars can drive downtown from Bentley Drive and across the street at Skyland Estates both with housing subdivisions, condos, and apartment homes. It creates having an imagination to find one's way around to find their way and attempt to cross traffic during the rush hours!
11. I was on the seat edge with my seat belt on as a taxi took me from River Hill Court (Circle) behind the popular Asian Restaurant alley crossing traffic all the way over to the 3rd lane. By the time I arrived at the doctor's office at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital, I had a very high blood pressure reading! We could have been hit, injured or killed.
Whomever cares about this important situation or does not know about it, PLEASE drive by (be very cautious) and see what is and has been happening here. PLEASE comment here and tell your friends even facebook and other social media connections to also come comment about this. We NEED MANY votes!
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
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Andrew (Registered User)
My vision is to do as follows:
- close/tear down the Kangroo Express on Broad River across from Greystone
- move Riverhill Drive on that side so that it comes into Broad River Road at a safer angle
- Build a new Kangroo Express convience store roughly where the car wash is currently located
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
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Anonymous14 (Registered User)
Andrew: The BP Kangaroo Express has been a problem, also, for a long time as an accident waiting to happen. A person waiting at the red light at Greystone Blvd. at Broad River Road atop the hill of the bridge being worked on for 3 1/2 years has been a real problem for those who want to get gasoline.
1. When the light turns green or is already green, drivers MUST turn left. They can't give drivers behind them enough time to indicate thery want to turn right into the BP Kangaroo Express! You are right, they need to close/tear it down. It';s been there for at least 30 years which use to have a turn signal before the car wash to go straight onto Greystone. People paid at the pump at an outdoor closed in kiosk. It worked well.
2. I don't know if River Hill Circle (really River Hill Court...also needing work and could be dangerous at 2 areas ans one being a blind spot with speeding) can be rerouted. There are apartment homes, "The Mill", at Bentley Drive below near the bridge being worked on that has a back entrance people utilize from Greenville Circle to either go to the above the hill (Bentley Drive) entrance or exit 1/4 a mile to turn right if staying on Broad River going towards Bush River Road or I-20 or Dutch Square Mall an easy way to be on Broad River Road there.
3. People use to drive out of BP when that red signal was eliminated. Several years later, a laser car wash was installed there next to the BP Kangaroo Express. Apartment home dwellers drove through the laser self service car wash to get to the upper end of "The Mill" at the back end for a safer and quicker way. The owner oif that car wash installer yellow pipes to prevent asny cars coming from the BP tyo River Hill Circle (Court)! He's been striving st keep that car wash open almost bankrupt several years and desperate enough to sell a pice of land cornering "River Hill Circle" (River Hill Court). Those wanting to use the BP gas station do so from even the Btroad River Road to croos over it to get into the station! It's QUITE busy due to location, sometimes good gas prices, and the convenience store we all know how gas stations make their money NOT by gasoline. BP Kangaroo Express want to make sure they get that same continued business not being an on off side road (River Hill Circle ...or River Hill Court).
4. The state or whomever is in charge don't really make an effort to cut down trees until the road (River Hill Circle or River Hill Court) is 1/2 covered with trees and thunderstorms take out telephone poles and trees falling on them to be left without electricity to those partments and others around them. They send "Esplundah Tree Cutting and Trimming Services" around ealy August to trim trees back there or cut them way back which is also the beginning of Greenville Circle Subdivision (Huffman Heights) ending at River Hill Circle (or Court).
5. We need DESPERATELY to have signs at Bentley Drive (1st right hand turn off of Broad River Road Bridge) and first left hand turn (A DANGEROUS CURVE) from both directions on Bentley Drive to slow down approaching River Hill Circle (River Hill Court) and 3/4's the way up that hill needing a SIGN to say "Road Entrance and Exit. SLOW DOWN". "Cars Entering or Exiting and Dumpster Garbage Trucks Coming Out On a Continual Basis." Many people used that River Hill Circle (Court) when it was made a Detour for the bridge for several months with people finding out THEN there is a short cut to beat the light at the top of the hill! They don't realize what a real road hazard is awaing them...no easy egress to Greystone Blvd. (look out when it's sunny and hard to see to jump 3 lanes of cars bottlenecked there!).
6. There use to be "Ebony Dance Studio" making it easier to get in line going back behind the alley to get into line earlier; she shut it down with signs and police which was NOT affecting her business! Then she had signs that said "NO TRAFFIC DRIVE THROUGH". Tickets were constantly being issued until she blocked it off there and the alley at the end of her pink building. After 20 years, she was married and left the site. Still no one could utilize it.
7. A Chinese Restaurant has been there when the Ebony was just recently doing VERY WELL for meal business facing Broad River Road and back road River Hill Circle (or Court) with an alley a house next to it sold and not a family in it.
8. People are still taking chances BIG TIME trying to go all 3 lanes of Broad River Road from River Hill Circle (Court) to go to Palmetto Richland Hospital from the house with pot holes! A taxi driver did this when I was a passenger paying over $10 to go 3 miles on 02/14 and a ride I had from my car being used by another family member for college used the same exact alley road!!! The sun was horrible to be able to see, but the driver did as others who know about that way into that same area to go down to the Broad River Road Bridge into town or to Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital for work and doctor appointments, gun it with speed, and hope they made it with no accident!!! I won't even try to use River Hill Circle (Court) across from Skyland Esates or at the top of the hill on that side of Broad River Road for Greystone Blvd or go down to Palmetto Richland Hospital any of those places. I go up to Means Road to Broad River Road out of my way to traffic light (hoping there are no school busses coming from acroos the road at an angel) that is almost not meant for turning left! I turn left and go either safely to Greystone Blvd. or to the Broad River Road Bridge!
10. It is so freaky going across that unfinished Broad River Bridge with NO guard rails! AND THE RIVER IS WAY UP FROM ALL THE RAIN AND DIVERSION DAM FLOWING FROM SMITH CREEK AND LAKE MURRAY! I just about hold my breath until I pas or say a prayer or both for everyone's safety. There is so much water that NO ROCKS are visible in the water (ALL COVERED UP!). Anyone who knows this area of Broad River and the bridge KNOWS lots of rocks are visible from the bridge, Columbia Canal Park and Greenway Walkway when it WAS opened, and people who fish under the bridge and at Diversion Dam who live and walk across the railroad tracks know it's HIGH when we get rain a couple of days. Lord Help us all when so many firetrucks and police trucks run that bridge 24/7!!!
11. Signs need to be placed to let cars know who come off of Broad River Road (first right turn after the bridge) onto Bentley Drive to ALL the several apartment complex homes, condos (Broad River Estates), Bluff River Estates homes behind Atlantic Avenue in Huffman Heights (inside the gated lock) at Broad River Township. Land for sale called River Bluffs have lost so MUCH money trying to sell them for over $175,000 for .1 lots are now sold as 7 for the price for $175,000 to $165,000 recently.
12. We have an SCE&G work area and small plant at River Ridge stated in number 5 and 2 - 3 VERY expensive homes on that bluff.
13. It use to be that ANY home on Greenville Circle, Atlantic Drive, and the rest of our Huffman Heights subdivision sold in ONE week!!! We had very FEW rental units as single homes! They have been rented out for 1 - 2 years and were ruined by occupants turning back to empty for repair and then for sale, again, but they stay on Zillow for too long. I never would have believed these homes would sit more than a week yet go down so far in price to be foreclosed. Our nighborhood had been that great!
CAN EVERYONE SEE WHAT A MONSTOSITY THIS HAS BECOME!? I CHALLENGE YOU TO DRIVE THESE ROADS ANY TIME OF DAY AND INCLUDE THEM AT MORNING TRAFFIC HOUR, LUNCH HOUR, AND 3 TRAFFIC AFTER WORK PATTERNS/SPANS TO ELEVIATE TRAFFIC EVERYWHERE!
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
CONTINUED: "MIA BROAD RIVER ROAD BRIDGE AND END OF RIVERFRONT PARK" PROBLEM FROM ANONYMOUS 10 AND 14
Dear Andrew and Other Commentors,
If it was you or someone else, I appreciate the pictures on this Broad River Road bridge so much. I just found these pictures not knowing they were here or how long (maybe 2 years). I wish there were newer ones, too, were on the "ClickFix" web sight.There needs to be an update of pictures and comments.
I know you said you thought it would open May or June 2013, but the part of the road/bridge side going into town seems to be still "Missing In Action!"
When is the last time you were there to see this from both sides?
It seems as if it will never re-open. I can't believe it's been 4 years!
There are more people with houses for sale now than I have ever seen especially Atlantic Drive in Huffman Heights Subdivision with 13 for sale signs! No one can drive on Atlantic, turn right, go down Bentley Drive, and turn left to go straight into town or across Broad River Road into Skyland Estates! I'm seeing more houses with for sale signs there, too. Greenville Circle has more for sale or empty. Homes use to be rarely for sale. If they were, they were elderly estates, and they sold the same day or 2 days later. They just sit from frustration of how the roads around are stopping people from going where they want and trying to avoid a lot of traffic.
Have you read all my posts since 2011?
We still can't walk to the end of Riverfront Park's Diversion Dam with that expansion of a special fish channel with tours 5 years ago. We can't walk down to Riverfront Park from Diversion Dam houses and condos and apartments in neighborhoods on the long hillside part of Broad River up to the BP. We can't even walk past the Broad River bridge but just to the bridge when we could access the park!
And they still have the bottom path by the river (not upper Columbia Canal one) torn apart and closed off. I'm not sure even if the park is open. The damage done to this side of Riverfront Park will be expensive to fix.
We'd all be open here when parts of Cayce and the amphitheater closes from too much rain. They have to keep closing it down and cleaning it up and repeating it over again.
Thanks for your contributions to this "Broad River Road Missing in Action" problem. May others who care and can do something about it finally do so. You all can see the area it affects and the long time it's been going on.
The loss of the handicapped fairly new ramp in the middle of the bridge was damaged. That left it impossible for them from houses, condos, apartments, and duplexes to go to this park. I remember so well the picture in the State Newspaper as Mayer Coble cut the ribbon at the ceremony for those needing a way into the park. Then no one could go as the road across the Broad River bridge found our end of Riverfront Park with Diversion Dam and birds coming in for food twice a day left the rest of us out.
Doesn't anyone remember the horrible chain car accident on the bridge as one was sent over the bridge cliff straight down into the rocks and river?
How long does it take to use Stimulus #1 money to start this work and still be going on 4 years later? It doesn't make hospital workers very happy to have to drive this twice a day!
You'd think this was some tall span bridge with lighting...but it's not. Why don't they add that? At night there are no longer any lights to be seen on what use to be two trails to walk.
The one next to Broad River was shut down a long time ago. It's like they closed our end of Riverfront Park where we use to walk at lunch time from work downtown on dirt roads and a path in an unprotected area where gangs frequented.
Walkers couldn't wait to arrive there to spend time just to relax at the scenery without benches and a rest room. All sorts of breeds of birds would be there, too.
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
CONTINUED: "MIA BROAD RIVER ROAD BRIDGE AND END OF RIVERFRONT PARK" PROBLEM FROM ANONYMOUS 10 AND 14
Dear Andrew and Other Commentors,
If it was you or someone else, I appreciate the pictures on this Broad River Road bridge so much. I just found these pictures not knowing they were here or how long (maybe 2 years). I wish there were newer ones, too, were on the "ClickFix" web sight.There needs to be an update of pictures and comments.
I know you said you thought it would open May or June 2013, but the part of the road/bridge side going into town seems to be still "Missing In Action!"
When is the last time you were there to see this from both sides?
It seems as if it will never re-open. I can't believe it's been 4 years!
There are more people with houses for sale now than I have ever seen especially Atlantic Drive in Huffman Heights Subdivision with 13 for sale signs! No one can drive on Atlantic, turn right, go down Bentley Drive, and turn left to go straight into town or across Broad River Road into Skyland Estates! I'm seeing more houses with for sale signs there, too. Greenville Circle has more for sale or empty. Homes use to be rarely for sale. If they were, they were elderly estates, and they sold the same day or 2 days later. They just sit from frustration of how the roads around are stopping people from going where they want and trying to avoid a lot of traffic.
Have you read all my posts since 2011?
We still can't walk to the end of Riverfront Park's Diversion Dam with that expansion of a special fish channel with tours 5 years ago. We can't walk down to Riverfront Park from Diversion Dam houses and condos and apartments in neighborhoods on the long hillside part of Broad River up to the BP. We can't even walk past the Broad River bridge but just to the bridge when we could access the park!
And they still have the bottom path by the river (not upper Columbia Canal one) torn apart and closed off. I'm not sure even if the park is open. The damage done to this side of Riverfront Park will be expensive to fix.
We'd all be open here when parts of Cayce and the amphitheater closes from too much rain. They have to keep closing it down and cleaning it up and repeating it over again.
Thanks for your contributions to this "Broad River Road Missing in Action" problem. May others who care and can do something about it finally do so. You all can see the area it affects and the long time it's been going on.
The loss of the handicapped fairly new ramp in the middle of the bridge was damaged. That left it impossible for them from houses, condos, apartments, and duplexes to go to this park. I remember so well the picture in the State Newspaper as Mayer Coble cut the ribbon at the ceremony for those needing a way into the park. Then no one could go as the road across the Broad River bridge found our end of Riverfront Park with Diversion Dam and birds coming in for food twice a day left the rest of us out.
Doesn't anyone remember the horrible chain car accident on the bridge as one was sent over the bridge cliff straight down into the rocks and river?
How long does it take to use Stimulus #1 money to start this work and still be going on 4 years later? It doesn't make hospital workers very happy to have to drive this twice a day!
You'd think this was some tall span bridge with lighting...but it's not. Why don't they add that? At night there are no longer any lights to be seen on what use to be two trails to walk.
The one next to Broad River was shut down a long time ago. It's like they closed our end of Riverfront Park where we use to walk at lunch time from work downtown on dirt roads and a path in an unprotected area where gangs frequented.
Walkers couldn't wait to arrive there to spend time just to relax at the scenery without benches and a rest room. All sorts of breeds of birds would be there, too.
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
CONTINUED: "MIA BROAD RIVER ROAD BRIDGE AND END OF RIVERFRONT PARK" PROBLEM FROM ANONYMOUS 10 AND 14
Dear Andrew and Other Commentors,
If it was you or someone else, I appreciate the pictures on this Broad River Road bridge so much. I just found these pictures not knowing they were here or how long (maybe 2 years). I wish there were newer ones, too, were on the "ClickFix" web sight.There needs to be an update of pictures and comments.
I know you said you thought it would open May or June 2013, but the part of the road/bridge side going into town seems to be still "Missing In Action!"
When is the last time you were there to see this from both sides?
It seems as if it will never re-open. I can't believe it's been 4 years!
There are more people with houses for sale now than I have ever seen especially Atlantic Drive in Huffman Heights Subdivision with 13 for sale signs! No one can drive on Atlantic, turn right, go down Bentley Drive, and turn left to go straight into town or across Broad River Road into Skyland Estates! I'm seeing more houses with for sale signs there, too. Greenville Circle has more for sale or empty. Homes use to be rarely for sale. If they were, they were elderly estates, and they sold the same day or 2 days later. They just sit from frustration of how the roads around are stopping people from going where they want and trying to avoid a lot of traffic.
Have you read all my posts since 2011?
We still can't walk to the end of Riverfront Park's Diversion Dam with that expansion of a special fish channel with tours 5 years ago. We can't walk down to Riverfront Park from Diversion Dam houses and condos and apartments in neighborhoods on the long hillside part of Broad River up to the BP. We can't even walk past the Broad River bridge but just to the bridge when we could access the park!
And they still have the bottom path by the river (not upper Columbia Canal one) torn apart and closed off. I'm not sure even if the park is open. The damage done to this side of Riverfront Park will be expensive to fix.
We'd all be open here when parts of Cayce and the amphitheater closes from too much rain. They have to keep closing it down and cleaning it up and repeating it over again.
Thanks for your contributions to this "Broad River Road Missing in Action" problem. May others who care and can do something about it finally do so. You all can see the area it affects and the long time it's been going on.
The loss of the handicapped fairly new ramp in the middle of the bridge was damaged. That left it impossible for them from houses, condos, apartments, and duplexes to go to this park. I remember so well the picture in the State Newspaper as Mayer Coble cut the ribbon at the ceremony for those needing a way into the park. Then no one could go as the road across the Broad River bridge found our end of Riverfront Park with Diversion Dam and birds coming in for food twice a day left the rest of us out.
Doesn't anyone remember the horrible chain car accident on the bridge as one was sent over the bridge cliff straight down into the rocks and river?
How long does it take to use Stimulus #1 money to start this work and still be going on 4 years later? It doesn't make hospital workers very happy to have to drive this twice a day!
You'd think this was some tall span bridge with lighting...but it's not. Why don't they add that? At night there are no longer any lights to be seen on what use to be two trails to walk.
The one next to Broad River was shut down a long time ago. It's like they closed our end of Riverfront Park where we use to walk at lunch time from work downtown on dirt roads and a path in an unprotected area where gangs frequented.
Walkers couldn't wait to arrive there to spend time just to relax at the scenery without benches and a rest room. All sorts of breeds of birds would be there, too.
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
CONTINUED: "MIA BROAD RIVER ROAD BRIDGE AND END OF RIVERFRONT PARK" PROBLEM FROM ANONYMOUS 10 AND 14
Dear Andrew and Other Commentors,
If it was you or someone else, I appreciate the pictures on this Broad River Road bridge so much. I just found these pictures not knowing they were here or how long (maybe 2 years). I wish there were newer ones, too, were on the "ClickFix" web sight.There needs to be an update of pictures and comments.
I know you said you thought it would open May or June 2013, but the part of the road/bridge side going into town seems to be still "Missing In Action!"
When is the last time you were there to see this from both sides?
It seems as if it will never re-open. I can't believe it's been 4 years!
There are more people with houses for sale now than I have ever seen especially Atlantic Drive in Huffman Heights Subdivision with 13 for sale signs! No one can drive on Atlantic, turn right, go down Bentley Drive, and turn left to go straight into town or across Broad River Road into Skyland Estates! I'm seeing more houses with for sale signs there, too. Greenville Circle has more for sale or empty. Homes use to be rarely for sale. If they were, they were elderly estates, and they sold the same day or 2 days later. They just sit from frustration of how the roads around are stopping people from going where they want and trying to avoid a lot of traffic.
Have you read all my posts since 2011?
We still can't walk to the end of Riverfront Park's Diversion Dam with that expansion of a special fish channel with tours 5 years ago. We can't walk down to Riverfront Park from Diversion Dam houses and condos and apartments in neighborhoods on the long hillside part of Broad River up to the BP. We can't even walk past the Broad River bridge but just to the bridge when we could access the park!
And they still have the bottom path by the river (not upper Columbia Canal one) torn apart and closed off. I'm not sure even if the park is open. The damage done to this side of Riverfront Park will be expensive to fix.
We'd all be open here when parts of Cayce and the amphitheater closes from too much rain. They have to keep closing it down and cleaning it up and repeating it over again.
Thanks for your contributions to this "Broad River Road Missing in Action" problem. May others who care and can do something about it finally do so. You all can see the area it affects and the long time it's been going on.
The loss of the handicapped fairly new ramp in the middle of the bridge was damaged. That left it impossible for them from houses, condos, apartments, and duplexes to go to this park. I remember so well the picture in the State Newspaper as Mayer Coble cut the ribbon at the ceremony for those needing a way into the park. Then no one could go as the road across the Broad River bridge found our end of Riverfront Park with Diversion Dam and birds coming in for food twice a day left the rest of us out.
Doesn't anyone remember the horrible chain car accident on the bridge as one was sent over the bridge cliff straight down into the rocks and river?
How long does it take to use Stimulus #1 money to start this work and still be going on 4 years later? It doesn't make hospital workers very happy to have to drive this twice a day!
You'd think this was some tall span bridge with lighting...but it's not. Why don't they add that? At night there are no longer any lights to be seen on what use to be two trails to walk.
The one next to Broad River was shut down a long time ago. It's like they closed our end of Riverfront Park where we use to walk at lunch time from work downtown on dirt roads and a path in an unprotected area where gangs frequented.
Walkers couldn't wait to arrive there to spend time just to relax at the scenery without benches and a rest room. All sorts of breeds of birds would be there, too.
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
CONTINUED: "MIA BROAD RIVER ROAD BRIDGE AND END OF RIVERFRONT PARK" PROBLEM FROM ANONYMOUS 10 AND 14
Dear Andrew and Other Commentors,
If it was you or someone else, I appreciate the pictures on this Broad River Road bridge so much. I just found these pictures not knowing they were here or how long (maybe 2 years). I wish there were newer ones, too, were on the "ClickFix" web sight.There needs to be an update of pictures and comments.
I know you said you thought it would open May or June 2013, but the part of the road/bridge side going into town seems to be still "Missing In Action!"
When is the last time you were there to see this from both sides?
It seems as if it will never re-open. I can't believe it's been 4 years!
There are more people with houses for sale now than I have ever seen especially Atlantic Drive in Huffman Heights Subdivision with 13 for sale signs! No one can drive on Atlantic, turn right, go down Bentley Drive, and turn left to go straight into town or across Broad River Road into Skyland Estates! I'm seeing more houses with for sale signs there, too. Greenville Circle has more for sale or empty. Homes use to be rarely for sale. If they were, they were elderly estates, and they sold the same day or 2 days later. They just sit from frustration of how the roads around are stopping people from going where they want and trying to avoid a lot of traffic.
Have you read all my posts since 2011?
We still can't walk to the end of Riverfront Park's Diversion Dam with that expansion of a special fish channel with tours 5 years ago. We can't walk down to Riverfront Park from Diversion Dam houses and condos and apartments in neighborhoods on the long hillside part of Broad River up to the BP. We can't even walk past the Broad River bridge but just to the bridge when we could access the park!
And they still have the bottom path by the river (not upper Columbia Canal one) torn apart and closed off. I'm not sure even if the park is open. The damage done to this side of Riverfront Park will be expensive to fix.
We'd all be open here when parts of Cayce and the amphitheater closes from too much rain. They have to keep closing it down and cleaning it up and repeating it over again.
Thanks for your contributions to this "Broad River Road Missing in Action" problem. May others who care and can do something about it finally do so. You all can see the area it affects and the long time it's been going on.
The loss of the handicapped fairly new ramp in the middle of the bridge was damaged. That left it impossible for them from houses, condos, apartments, and duplexes to go to this park. I remember so well the picture in the State Newspaper as Mayer Coble cut the ribbon at the ceremony for those needing a way into the park. Then no one could go as the road across the Broad River bridge found our end of Riverfront Park with Diversion Dam and birds coming in for food twice a day left the rest of us out.
Doesn't anyone remember the horrible chain car accident on the bridge as one was sent over the bridge cliff straight down into the rocks and river?
How long does it take to use Stimulus #1 money to start this work and still be going on 4 years later? It doesn't make hospital workers very happy to have to drive this twice a day!
You'd think this was some tall span bridge with lighting...but it's not. Why don't they add that? At night there are no longer any lights to be seen on what use to be two trails to walk.
The one next to Broad River was shut down a long time ago. It's like they closed our end of Riverfront Park where we use to walk at lunch time from work downtown on dirt roads and a path in an unprotected area where gangs frequented.
Walkers couldn't wait to arrive there to spend time just to relax at the scenery without benches and a rest room. All sorts of breeds of birds would be there, too.
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CONTINUED: "MIA BROAD RIVER ROAD BRIDGE AND END OF RIVERFRONT PARK" PROBLEM FROM ANONYMOUS 10 AND 14
Dear Andrew, Ted, and Other Commentors,
If it was you or someone else, I appreciate the pictures on this Broad River Road bridge so much. I just found these pictures not knowing they were here or how long (maybe 2 years). I wish there were newer ones, too, were on the "ClickFix" web sight.There needs to be an update of pictures and comments.
I know you said you thought it would open May or June 2013, but the part of the road/bridge side going into town seems to be still "Missing In Action!"
When is the last time you were there to see this from both sides?
It seems as if it will never re-open. I can't believe it's been 4 years!
There are more people with houses for sale now than I have ever seen especially Atlantic Drive in Huffman Heights Subdivision with 13 for sale signs! No one can drive on Atlantic, turn right, go down Bentley Drive, and turn left to go straight into town or across Broad River Road into Skyland Estates! I'm seeing more houses with for sale signs there, too. Greenville Circle has more for sale or empty. Homes use to be rarely for sale. If they were, they were elderly estates, and they sold the same day or 2 days later. They just sit from frustration of how the roads around are stopping people from going where they want and trying to avoid a lot of traffic.
Have you read all my posts since 2011?
We still can't walk to the end of Riverfront Park's Diversion Dam with that expansion of a special fish channel with tours 5 years ago. We can't walk down to Riverfront Park from Diversion Dam houses and condos and apartments in neighborhoods on the long hillside part of Broad River up to the BP. We can't even walk past the Broad River bridge but just to the bridge when we could access the park!
And they still have the bottom path by the river (not upper Columbia Canal one) torn apart and closed off. I'm not sure even if the park is open. The damage done to this side of Riverfront Park will be expensive to fix.
We'd all be open here when parts of Cayce and the amphitheater closes from too much rain. They have to keep closing it down and cleaning it up and repeating it over again.
Thanks for your contributions to this "Broad River Road Missing in Action" problem. May others who care and can do something about it finally do so. You all can see the area it affects and the long time it's been going on.
The loss of the handicapped fairly new ramp in the middle of the bridge was damaged. That left it impossible for them from houses, condos, apartments, and duplexes to go to this park. I remember so well the picture in the State Newspaper as Mayer Coble cut the ribbon at the ceremony for those needing a way into the park. Then no one could go as the road across the Broad River bridge found our end of Riverfront Park with Diversion Dam and birds coming in for food twice a day left the rest of us out.
Doesn't anyone remember the horrible chain car accident on the bridge as one was sent over the bridge cliff straight down into the rocks and river?
How long does it take to use Stimulus #1 money to start this work and still be going on 4 years later? It doesn't make hospital workers very happy to have to drive this twice a day!
You'd think this was some tall span bridge with lighting...but it's not. Why don't they add that? At night there are no longer any lights to be seen on what use to be two trails to walk.
The one next to Broad River was shut down a long time ago. It's like they closed our end of Riverfront Park where we use to walk at lunch time from work downtown on dirt roads and a path in an unprotected area where gangs frequented.
Walkers couldn't wait to arrive there to spend time just to relax at the scenery without benches and a rest room. All sorts of breeds of birds would be there, too.
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This has been viewed 147 TIMES!!!! PLEASE LEAVE THOSE COMMENTS!
Do not just read this and leave.
You can leave 2 words, such as "FIX THIS!" or IT'S TIME TO END THE DELAYS...COMPLETE THIS BRIDGE!"
NEXT: Follow ALL the related issues. MAKE THE SAME COMMENTS AS ABOVE!
HELP US ALL OUT HERE! It involves Bentley Drive, River Hill Circle and River Hill Ct., Skyland Drive, both sides of Broad River Road, horrific traffic getting in and out of it to go to Greystone Blvd. at the light at Broad River trying to cross 3 - 4 lanes at a "T", many condos and apartment home complexes, 2 very nice subdivisions with many older people trying to cross into just 1 lane, people making their own roads and changes, and automobile expenses hitting a drain and pot holes. There are blind areas where cars speed not knowing about the blind curves with speeding and drivers not knowing that residences are coming out of an apartment home complex.
REPLY TO THESE PROBLEMS, PLEASE!
Isn't 4 years enough of 20+ problems and deaths worth getting this done? Do we need more?
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
So, you send me an email on my topic but not the others or spin offs of people who added theirs as this grew larger and larger when our federal government Stimulus #1 bridge repair about if it's fixed! Seriously?
What does it take to get a response from WIS-TV to come out to video tape this for tv on one of their programs of consumer issues that affect so many people and traffic on this bridge going from the top of the hill at Greystone Blvd and now beyond to below at the bridge becoming River Drive?
I've heard stories over the weekend about Stimulus #1 programs for roads and bridges across the country taking 10 years for such a small project to be finished by a certain date.
Who did the bidding for this one here and won the contract to perform a bridge replacement that's nothing fancy but quite simple? It has no spans or special lighting.
They took a handicapped ramp away after the mayor and news had built and dedicated to our residents here to be able to enjoy this special part of The Three Rivers Greenway with so much to offer.
While the other connector Greenway Parks kept flooding out all summer, ours never did but was closed off at times for no special reason.
I guess it doesn't matter either that school is back in with more precious cargo having to deal with this again still 4+ years later!
What is it going to take to speed this up?
We had one death over a year ago from this excuse of a bridge being built! Imagine if you and maybe a co-worker, friend, or family was in that car leading the front of several cars that slammed on their brakes first hitting it with a chain reaction of cars sending it over the bridge, watching it crash down over the embankment while it hit rocks on the side and landed on more as the person(s) inside drowned in the Broad River! It use to be for many years the yearly jump off "suicide bridge."
Just imagine that sight of that car hit from behind by others as whomever the occupant(s) were saw their death coming!
Something horribly dangerous is going to happen with Greystone Blvd., Skyland Esates, Huffman Heights, Broad River and its bridge, these many apartment homes, and condo owners having a massive wreck that will bring many fire trucks, ambulances, police cars, and all the news to this area. I pray and believe it will not be my own family and friends, but sadly it will be others that I will be very sad about because I didn't do enough to stop this program of many problems and destruction escalate to this point.
Is this just a reporting place of competition between other states who have issues to just complain where some planned program has so much pressure placed on the "powers that be" to show those folks who fought hard had won? Yet, we sit here with no reponse. I'm thinking you are from California which we know was the first state to go bankrupt.
How is this Obama Stimulus #1 and #2 "working for you?" Is this the "hope and change" you expected? Or has the "Change" we all are experiencing have no more "Hope" left?
You also need to check all the issues I have left over and over again over 4 years plus those surrounding me have ones that have spun off of mine and my neighbors who have been reporting their incidents!
At the same time, the pictures that were taken and placed here, especially on this topic, were removed. WHY?!
Can we get a response from you here and the other 144 people who viewed this on this page and other pages I took the time to write them all out, and then they did as well?
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This ongoing set of serious problems concerning "MIA (Missing in Action) Broad River Road Bridge" and the destruction of our Greenway Park System of 2 major trails at Columbia Canal and Diversion Dam leading down town to Riverfront Park, partial use of Greenway Park System with NO flooding for activity users does NOT flood as West Columbia and Cayce does very often, been reported more than your listing above at 258 times and has been reported 400+ times according to your records is NOT accurate and much higher than your estimates!
What is the plan and time table for opening the "MISSING IN ACTION (MIA) Broad River Road Bridge" that is going on 5 years at a snail's pace from way back when our state was given from the federal government Stimulus #1 money in 2008 for starting construction June 2009? There are so many issues, some very dangerous resulting in death and almost losing that bridge which could have affected ALL bridges going downtown with Interstate 26 and 126 and maybe a major flood in Columbia, to a 4 lane road that's been 2 lanes for almost 5 years.
I guess there are people who are in charge at the SCDOT wanting to pay out more money for deaths and injuries on the bridge, wrecks up on the hill around Greystone Blvd., and making sure we continue to hit and lead the news nationally should all bridges leading into downtown be destroyed by OUR end at the 600 and 700 block of Broad River Road and River Drive. I'm sure that drivers, bus riders, and emergency personnel would be happy trying to figure out how to get into and out of town for emergencies. Our trains that run on a consistent basis would be stopped. Riverbanks Zoo would be closed down from this destruction.
REMEMBER...WE ARE A MAJOR ROAD FOR CONTINUOUS USAGE BY SCHOOL BUSES, WORKERS AT RICHLAND HOSPITAL, AND PATIENTS APPOINTMENTS OR HOSPITALIZATIONS!
FIRE TRUCK DRIVERS, AMBULANCE DRIVERS AND EMT'S, AND POLICE CAR RESPONDERS ARE COUNTING ON THIS ROAD AND BROAD RIVER ROAD BRIDGE AND RIVER DRIVE. THERE IS A CONSTANT DAY AND NIGHT SOUND OF SIRENS IN THIS AREA WHERE TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
Where are our answers?
Please update your information concerning HOW LONG this has been discussed by myself (a registered user here) and others over almost 5 years reporting this. I have connections to 5 titles that involve what problems this "MIA BROAD RIVER ROAD AND COLUMBIA CANAL" has caused. Please link them together.
I want to know why I can't vote on my issues and others on here since last night losing my comments even after I signed in. I care about others issues as well and try to lead them to how they can get their answers. It makes me seem foolish giving answers when mine and my subdivisions neighbors comment here being the oldest and no answers! One issue on "SeeClickFix" in particular didn't even have an assigned Congressional District number nor anyone they could contact for their important neighborhood issue.
What is the next move and plan of action on a time table for completion and re-building of what was a new handicapped ramp from the bridge for those who couldn't get into our end of the park?
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#2 - it actually is a complicated project. Aesthetic features were added to the structure to keep with the style & look of the old one. It is also being built in stages - the 1970's side was replaced first. There are also a sewer line, a water main and several fiber optic lines crossing the bridge.
#3 - the money for this bridge replacement wasn't stimulus money.
#4 - the pedestrian ramp to the walkway will be rebuilt. The new bridge is about 7' wider & the old ramp wouldn't fit anymore. In fact, we specified that it should be opened again once the north side of the replacement was done. We designed improvements to the trail next to the canal to provide more headroom for bicyclists & ambulances to go under it.
#5 - this project only involved the bridge and a short distance of road before & after.
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Be happy? It has been 4 years now, 3 1/2 of which I have lived in an apartment near the bridge. It makes no sense to me that a bridge of this size could take so long to finish, especially since it still only looks half done. Are we going to need to wait another 4 years for the other side to be finished?
Another thing, why have they not connected the ramp to the side of the bridge that is finished? They built the ramp, but when it was about 3 feet from the bridge, they simply put a piece of plywood on it and kept it disconnected; if I want to go on the riverwalk I either have to walk through a construction area or take a detour down the side road to get to the dam parking lot.
Anonymous14 (Registered User)
Thank you Click Fix for adding the correct details that was asked for. Now all we need is the bridge FINISHED...and no further problems after that.
I've heard from many people who grew up in this area as children terrified riding with their parents and later drivers themselves to Richland Memorial Hospital and jobs until they became semi-retired and moved outside this Broad River Road bridge area to West Columbia near Rte. 1 and I-26 or Lexington. They are shocked even with what Bridge Engineer, especially #2 statement said still is no excuse for all they had to do and should have known by any original or other blue prints or pipes needing changed meaning the bridge stayed in the governments mind leaving it go that this would be very costly and timely. The proper way to handle these common sense situations is to be forth coming with news reports on tv and the State Newspaper and adding to this comment section where they are with this project and what to expect next. The longer this was put off and originally made shows that patch jobs and changes were from the 1970's and would cost even more delaying it. It would be interesting to find out WHAT was the original estimated cost when they started. What it cost them for the deaths of those going over the bridge. Take into account the almost fiasco when we had one rare rain storm where the crane almost took a trip down the Broad River not knowing what it could have cost for its damages.
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TO THE HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY CLOWN ON HERE: This is NOT funny nor your syllogisms. Go play every day which is apparently YOUR favorite song "DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY." Tell that to the families that lost loved ones on this nightmare bridge. It use to be the end of the year suicide bridge; now they use the other 2 downtown! Are you still singing?!!
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