Why is South Carolina still building roads on top of Black communities?

[Otto Yamamoto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/sandridge-south-carolina-highway-conway-perimeter-road

[The Ghostbuster]

The proposed roadway is an extension of a roadway named El Bethel Rd., located here: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8526194,-79.0988081,2331m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu. In addition, here is a handout of the proposed corridor I found online from a 2019 PIM: http://info2.scdot.org/projects/ViewerFiles/P031826%20-%20Conway%20Perimeter%20Phase%20II%20-%20PIM%20Handout%2007302019.pdf. Is this perimeter road really needed? If the locals don't want it, maybe it shouldn't be built.

[kalvado]

... on top of communities...
---taking 6 (six) properties...

I wonder if any new construction without affecting at least some existing properties is possible? 

[Rothman]

"It's a bypass!  You've got to build bypasses."

[RoadPelican]

Tough break for Conway and Horry County, but something needs to be done. I last visited the area in March 2021 on a weekday, weeks before spring break and the Conway historic district was nice but it is way too congested for a small town, and there is already a US 501 Bypass but Business 501 is just as busy.

Myrtle Beach has been sprawling into Conway since the 1990's and now the sprawl of the last 30 years is turning Conway from a quaint town into a bustling suburb.

The SC 22 Expressway should have been built closer to Conway, it is too empty.

I wonder if this Conway Perimeter is going to be a part of the SELL (Southern Evacuation Lifeline) project?

[PColumbus73]

Tough break for Conway and Horry County, but something needs to be done. I last visited the area in March 2021 on a weekday, weeks before spring break and the Conway historic district was nice but it is way too congested for a small town, and there is already a US 501 Bypass but Business 501 is just as busy.

Myrtle Beach has been sprawling into Conway since the 1990's and now the sprawl of the last 30 years is turning Conway from a quaint town into a bustling suburb.

The SC 22 Expressway should have been built closer to Conway, it is too empty.

I wonder if this Conway Perimeter is going to be a part of the SELL (Southern Evacuation Lifeline) project?

The SELL highway would be further out. It would start where SC 22 meets US 501 and roughly follow Pee Dee Hwy and meet US 17 near Surfside Beach.

The Conway Perimeter would just be a surface road, not an expressway. I've heard some people talk about a third bridge across the Waccamaw River, south of the 501 bridge, if it were to happen, it might extend to SC 544, but I don't think there have been any serious plans.

[bwana39]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/sandridge-south-carolina-highway-conway-perimeter-road

So a British Tabloid?

[kalvado]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/sandridge-south-carolina-highway-conway-perimeter-road

So a British Tabloid?

21st century media is a better sentence.

[Concrete Bob]

Nah..."British tabloid" is an absolutely perfect description.

[Georgia]

The Guardian is hardly a tabloid, you are thinking of Daily Mail, the Mirror or the Sun

[LilianaUwU]

At least it's not the New York Times.

[The Ghostbuster]

Maybe we should focus more on the story, and less on the source.

[kalvado]

Maybe we should focus more on the story, and less on the source.

Story is pretty obvious - there is some use of imminent domain to run a new road. Article makes it sound as if entire neighborhood is going to be destroyed. It's not that 6 properties have no impact - especially for property owners - but substance of the story doesn't match presenting.
Overall, this pretty much qualifies the source as tabloid, not the other way around. You know,  if it swims like a duck...

[MBHockey13]

Maybe we should focus more on the story, and less on the source.

Story is pretty obvious - there is some use of imminent domain to run a new road. Article makes it sound as if entire neighborhood is going to be destroyed. It's not that 6 properties have no impact - especially for property owners - but substance of the story doesn't match presenting.
Overall, this pretty much qualifies the source as tabloid, not the other way around. You know,  if it swims like a duck...

Correct - and The Guardian is actually below the standard British tabloid in accurate news reporting.

[FightingIrish]

Maybe we should focus more on the story, and less on the source.

Story is pretty obvious - there is some use of imminent domain to run a new road. Article makes it sound as if entire neighborhood is going to be destroyed. It's not that 6 properties have no impact - especially for property owners - but substance of the story doesn't match presenting.
Overall, this pretty much qualifies the source as tabloid, not the other way around. You know,  if it swims like a duck...

Correct - and The Guardian is actually below the standard British tabloid in accurate news reporting.