Michael Niermeier News Today

The director of Richland County's Transportation Department, the agency in charge of the county's penny tax program for roads projects, has been fired.

Blythewood area residents should see construction on the long-anticipated widening project on Blythewood Road after the first of the year, according to Michael Niermeier, Richland County’s director of transportation. Niermeier told attendees at Tuesday’s Blythewood Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting the project has been in a holding pattern while the county negotiates right-of-way settlements with owners of five parcels of land on the route. Blythewood Road will be widened to five la...