New I-526 Plans Throws Residents for a “Loop”

Looks like 526 will, pardon the pun, come “full circle” now that local greenies have voiced support for a design that will allow the embattled roadway to be completed.
Under the new plan, a hugely deadly loop-to-loop section will be included, nearly ensuring the demise of any motorist driving along the completed raised highway.
As a further compromise, several sections of the yet-to-be constructed roadway will be “invisible” for about 40 feet.
The Mark Clark Expressway was first constructed in 1997 and has served as a bypass to and from different pieces of U.S. Hwy. 17, with terminating ends in James Island and Mt. Pleasant and West Ashley, connected by a long stretch over Daniel Island.
State road officials teamed with Charleston city planners about five years ago to push for a completion of the de facto inner-loop, the section to be constructed would be an extension between the James Island and West Ashley terminus, with a long stretch over Johns Island.
Local conservation groups, however, successfully fought against the project, until this week when a compromise plan was unveiled that met with approval from all sides.
Donatello Plage, executive director of the SCCWPAVLSFFHDF (South Carolina Coastal Wildlife Preservation Audubon Voters of the Lowcountry of the Sierra Federation Friends of the Hybrid Defense Fund), hailed the new plan as more than amenable.
“Anytime you see a minivan full of oil-consuming Earth-haters plunge to their deaths, you can’t help but smile,” said Plage, grinning at the mere concept.
Plage, and the rest of the SCCWPAVLSFFHDF, also advocated for the loop to begin in one lane and then end in the oncoming lane, but cooler heads at the state level prevailed.
“My biggest concern now, as well as that of members of the Charleston Chapter of the SCCWPAVLSFFHDF, or as it is know in conservation circles, the ‘CC’SCCWPAVLSFFHDF, is the environmental impact of the piles of flaming cars and dead bodies,” said Plage.
As a result the SCCWPAVLSFFHDF will join with the CCSCCWPAVLSFFHDF andadvocate for requiring every motorist utilizing 526 to do so in cars made of biodegradable hemp.