What is the New Way To Work Alternative?
1. The New Way To Work Alternative Solves Traffic
Problems.
- By giving drivers choices, traffic problems
are solved because drivers can avoid choke points along the roads.
Future redevelopment of commercial areas can include a network
of streets to give drivers choices.
- Based on figures from the BCD COG, the majority
of trips travelling on our most congested roads are local trips.
For example, only 44% of the traffic traveling on Savannah Highway
is commuting through the area. The remaining 56% of the traffic
on Savannah Highway are local trips that begin or end on the road.
Accordingly, if you a connected grid of secondary streets, there
is the potential to remove 56% of the traffic off of Savannah Highway.
- In addition, good redevelopment that brings jobs, shopping,
and services closer to residents reduces traffic as people drive,
walk, or bike to new, nearby establishments.
2. Also, the New Way To Work Alternative provides
quality-of-life benefits to the community.
- Good redevelopment not only helps with traffic,
but is also an economic development boon, providing more local
jobs, more customers for existing businesses through the cluster
effect, and additional revenue for the city services.
- An important benefit of the New Way to Work Alternative
is the creation of a waterfront west of the Ashley River, which
would be both an economic and a quality of life windfall for the
region.
- The New Way To Work Alternative offers real long-term traffic
solutions, more public waterfront, and more desirable neighborhoods
served by local shopping and services.
- The New Way To Work Alternative provides long-lasting traffic
relief that reduces the time citizens must spend in traffic, giving
people more time at home with their families and doing what they
want to do.
- Also better for the environment, the New Way To Work Alternative
avoids the destruction of wetlands and parkland that the I-526
proposes.
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