Moncks Corner woman advocates for change to traffic pattern she deems a ‘hazard’
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCSC) - A Moncks Corner woman is looking for a change to her neighborhood’s traffic pattern, as she says trying to get out of her subdivision not only adds several minutes to her commute but is often unsafe.
Carmen Jefferson lives off Highway 17A, taking Cypress Forest Drive when entering and leaving her subdivision.
“It’s becoming more and more of a hazard,” Carmen Jefferson says.
Without a stoplight or a center turn lane at this four-way intersection, Jefferson says she is left scared anytime she leaves her neighborhood, Cypress Ridge.
“We have to just, you know, really proceed with caution and be careful, because it’s just dangerous. There’s too much traffic,” Jefferson says.
The intersection includes Highway 17A, Cypress Forest Drive and Windwood Lane.
Jefferson and her neighbors are now advocating for road safety improvements.
“It would give us, you know, a safer degree of access to getting outside of making that left turn or even the right turn outside of the subdivision, as well as the street directly across from us that’s a whole other neighborhood in itself,” Jefferson says.
After multiple accidents, Jefferson says she did reach out to the South Carolina Department of Transportation, which did not make any changes to the intersection.
SCDOT says the most recent traffic study was done by them in 2017 and at that time a signal was not warranted, continuing to say a signal is unlikely at the intersection unless additional development occurs on the road or area. As for the request for a center median turn lane, SCDOT says the center median is striped for these turns.
For the time being, Jefferson says she is going to continue to fight for a safer community.
“A traffic light is really what we need for everyone’s safety… I’m just going to have to just keep trying to fight it, you know, and hopefully get some kind of resolution,” Jefferson says.
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