HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW)-Dozens of road projects remains in the planning stages in Horry County. On Thursday, the Ride 3 committee will meet to discuss the next phase of the Riding on a Penny plan.
The 18 member committee has spent the last several months studying and surveying road needs in Horry County. At the last meeting, each member submitted three projects for consideration and Thursday’s meeting is to begin prioritizing that list.
The first thing on the agenda is deciding whether or not to use a portion of the money to pave dirt roads in the rural part of Horry County.
Committee members will then review the projects submitted including the estimated costs and start using a priority formula to determine what will move forward. Some projects on the list are already generating a strong reaction.
“The 31 connector to Interstate 74 in North Carolina, the bypass over at Conway, the widening of 501 from Myrtle Beach out, those are the big ones and Forestbrook Road is a big project,” CCU Chief Operating Officer Dr. Eddie Dyer said.
Now that each project has an assigned cost, money is going to be a consideration as the committee moves forward.
“I believe the total cost of all that were submitted by the committee is about 1.9 billion and we will have at most about 550 million,” Dyer added.
The committee will have 3 or 4 more meetings before finalizing a list of projects to submit to Horry County Council who will review the projects from there.
The goal is to have a finalized list by this summer.
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