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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 them not knowing they were here or how long. I wish they were or newer ones 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 rarely were being sold. 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. We can't even walk past the Broad River bridge but just to the bridge!
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.
3 Comments
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
This is a long term continuous problem listed on here and viewed 76 times. How long does it take and how many workers does it take to fix a bridge going on since Stimulus #1 4 years? See also "Missing in Action: Broad River Road Bridge". Read "CLOSED: Columbia Canal and River"
Anonymous14 (Guest)
Now it says above that this issue has been viewed 39 times and not 76 times.
It would be nice if the viewers would leave even a one sentence comment to help get this bridge finished that affects NOT just the bridge.
We lost part of our 3 Rivers Greenway Park and all it has to offer, too.
How long does it take to build a school, a road, shopping center, condos in Miami Beach, compared to a simple 4 lane bridge that could have been collapsed by a rubber barge holding up a crane from one of our rare heavy rains as water was being sent down to the Columbia Canal and Broad River at this bridge as soon as 1 lane out of 4 was about to be finished? Homes and businesses and main roads flooding may have reached down past Congaree River at Eastman Kodak. I bet all the news would have been here including placing us on the national news broadcasts and newspapers and internet!