Congressional District #2; Columbia Mayor Benjamin; DOT; WIS-TV

Open Issues: 11 Closed Issues: 1 Acknowledged Issues: 0
Watching issues created after: 2014-01-10

Please read, comment, and pay attention to ALL issues to us neighbors in the neighborhoods. Drivers with passengers, having to go to work, or as a patient to Richland Palmetto Memorial Hospital and many doctors offices on this construction project has been going on for over 4 and 1/2 years. We've had deaths here, accidents, and almost lost the bridge from a crane on a leaning rubberized barge from rain 2 years ago. It has affected so many of us including when this construction company had detour

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  • Broad River Bridge On River Drive Columbia, SC - Columbia
    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!
  • 600 Broad River Road And 4146 River Drive Columbia/Richland, South Carolina 29210 - Columbia
    Look up all these issues I've reported about for 4 years: Broad River Road Bridge, Columbia Canal, Three Rivers Greenway shut down and cut off, affective roads way up to Greystone Blvd., accident with death when car was pushed over the bridge crashing into the rocks ending with a dead driver, closed fairly new handicapped entrance on the bridge into the park, heavy rain that almost sent the crane on a rubber barge into the bridge which could have taken out all bridges downtown, traffic causing potholes and roads ruined to subdivisions on both sides of the road (Huffman Heights and Skyland Estates with many condos and nice apartment homes) still not finished after 4 years. I want the report to go to WIS-TV, the STATE NEWSPAPER, CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT #2 PERSON IN CHARGE, CITY COUNCIL, THREE RIVERS GREENWAY, AND the NEW MAYOR BENJAMIN. How long does it take to build a bridge without spans? No bridge downtown would be acceptable to travelers if this was theirs! Drivers and workers coming from and going to the hospitals utilize this bridge and roads 2 times a day! And we have ambulances and fire trucks who highly travel this bridge. Millions was spent on the fish channel that rangers gave tours in the spring and summer explaining the importance of our Diversion Dam and fish channel. What are you going to do about destruction to the Three Rivers Greenway trails at the Columbia Canal and Broad River paths here? The traffic way up to Greystone Blvd. is DANGEROUS; we've a red light where Greystone Blvd. meets Broad River Road at the BP Station with drivers from both sides of the road with blind spots trying to get onto Greystone or Broad River at that light with 3 lanes there!
  • Greystone And Broad River Rd Columbia, SC - Richland County
    Turning onto Broad River Road from Greystone Blvd. The Traffic Light Has a long wait time. Today for instance i waited 2min and 25 seconds on that light to change and no traffic was coming. Can this time be shortened a little?
  • 400-406 Broad River Bridge Columbia, SC - Columbia
    Please see CLICK, FIX to read 33 votes and comments WISTV. THIS HAS BEEN AND STILL IS DANGEROUS FOR 2 OUT OF 4 YEARS AND COUNTING!
  • 600-700 Broad River Road Columbia, South Carolina - Columbia
    SeeClickFix.com....reported to them on this site by Anonymous10, Anonymous14, Mimi, Andrew, et. al (all registered users) as reported over 400 days (under estimated by SeeClickFix) and 156 views (under estimated) several issues including bridge death of car pushed by others vehicles through bridge crashing into rocks and river; emergency personnel main road to hospitals, patients going to Richland Palmetto Hospital for doctor visits and hospitalizations, neighborhoods affected by this issue that turned into multiple situations all dangerous
  • 900 Riverhill Cir Columbia, SC - Columbia
    Huge pothole that caused me to have a flat tire and will cause many others to have the same problem if problem is not fixed.
  • 638-710 Broad River Rd Columbia, SC - Columbia
    People, everyone knows that it goes from two lanes to one lane to a bridge that is closed on one side. Driving Dangerously only causes more delays!!
  • Broad River Bridge "Missing In Action" Columbia, South Carolina - Columbia

    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.

  • Broad River Bridge Columbia, South Carolina - Columbia

    FROM ANONYMOUS14
    Dear Andrew and Other Commentors the Last 2 Years,
    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.

  • 4147-4205 Broad River Bridge Columbia, SC - Columbia
    This Broad River Bridge, part of Three Rivers Greenway, has caused more destruction to the park than the construction of this bridge. It's the most time consuming project I ever heard of! Slowly, every year for 3 years, they have taken away walking parts of the 2 trails down to 1 trail and then no trails followed by NO PARK OPEN! We have had wrecks with one resulting in death as a car went over the bridge into the rocks after being hit from behind. There was another wreck a few months before on the same bridge. Stimulus money paid for this thing which shows the federal government can't run anything or engineer a very NOT at all complicated bridge project properly. Each year they have done so much destruction as they have spent over 3 years on rebuilding both sides. The last straw was closing the park down! If anything, we needed the park roadway raised above the water not even with it or below it causing flooding. Then they could have paved it even if it was cement but not gravel that scratches cars and makes dust for people who suffer from respiratory issues, such as asthma. This bridge has caused road problems around our neighborhoods and taking away a handicapped ramp that's steel and cement hanging up in the air; it can't possibly be used again. Our 2 trails were shut off and removed. We are cut off from downtown's Riverfront Park. Our Diversion Dam is no longer a place to watch birds of various varieties nor able to watch them come in to eat. The special fish channel that is no where else to be found anywhere is closed off from the forest rangers to give tours and tell the story about how and where they travel nor able to see them in the viewing window. This bridge has become MORE dangerous than when it was said it was in need of repair 5 years previously when they held a town meeting.
    Workers are standing around doing little or nothing as drivers pass by going to work and going back home. One side gets done while the other side just sits with no work done on it, and then they start again. We get a spring rain early 2012, and the flooding issue almost sends a crane sitting on a rubber barge starts tilting towards the bridge almost taking out the entire bridge! How wonderful it would have been to have had no bridge COMPLETELY gone! And they promise 2013 or 2014 as the time it will be finished...a total of 4 -5 years!!
  • 100 Greystone Boulevard Columbia, South Carolina - Richland County
    1. Traffic problems from the bridge, all along that area of Broad River Road and Greystone Blvd. to include Riverhill Ct. around Huffman Heights Subdivision with apartment homes and condos along Bentley Drive and all around Atlantic Drive. This includes many road hazards and accidents also to include Skyland Estates across Broad River Road. These roads are HIGHLY used by St. Andres Fire Department, various ambulances, and rescue trucks.
    2. Read my reports which have not been totally reported under Anonymous14.
  • Broad Riverhill Wb Columbia, SC 29210, USA - Columbia
    trash on both sides looks horrible.