SCDOT adds more funding to improve state's many roads
This is the seventh year of the pavement improvement program.
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This is the seventh year of the pavement improvement program.
SC to spend $642M over next 18 months resurfacing roads May 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina will spend $642 million repaving roads through the end of 2022, the state Department of Transportation said. The money comes from the latest two-cent increase in the state gas tax that goes into effect in July. Lawmakers passed a 12-cent increase in 2017, raising the tax by two cents over six years. The $642 million will pay to repair and resurface nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of roads over the next 18 months, SCDOT said in a statement. Roads from interstat...