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<body w3c="http://visualvision.com/w3c-validation.htm" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <base target="_top"/> <div align="center" class="s0" style="margin-left: 9mm;margin-right: 0mm;"> <font style="font-family:'Georgia';font-size:61pt;"><b>Pickens Politics </b></font></div> <div align="right" class="s0" style="text-align: right;margin-left: 9mm;margin-right: 2mm;"> <font style="font-family:'Cooper Black';font-size:48pt;"><b></b></font><font style="color:#FF0000;font-size:13pt;"><b>www.PickensPolitics.com </b></font></div> <div align="center" class="s88" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 9mm;margin-right: 2mm;"> <font style="color:#FF0000;font-family:'Cooper Black';font-size:13pt;">   </font><font style="color:#FF0000;font-family:'Cooper Black';font-size:12pt;">   </font><font style="font-family:'Cooper Black';font-size:12pt;"><a class="s88" href="alex_000001.htm">W</font><font style="font-size:12pt;">rite-ups</a>    <a class="s88" href="alex_000006.htm">Videos</a>    <a class="s88" href="alex_000004.htm">About Us</a> </font></div> <div align="center" class="s1540" style="text-align: center;">  </div> <div align="center" class="s1540" style="text-align: center;"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"></font><b> Highway Repaving 2024-25 </b></div> <div align="center" class="s1540" style="text-align: center;"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"></font>By Alex Saitta </div> <div align="center" class="s1540" style="text-align: center;"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">September 19, 2024 </font></div> <div align="center" class="s1540" style="text-align: center;"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">The state is in the midst of a 10 year highway improvement plan. I want to update you on what the SCDOT is up to concerning repaving our state highways inside Pickens County.   </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">Last year the SCDOT repaved SC 186 in Dacusville. Now it is repaving SC 186, east out of Dacusville to the Greenville line. They milled off about 10 inches using the CMRB (Cement Modified Recycled Base) process, mixed it with cement and laid it back down. It gets hard. Then they skim off an inch to smooth it and finally they repaved it.  </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">The SCDOT is also repaving SC 186 from the Dacusville Farmers Market westward to Highway 8 (Trotter’s old store). That is being CMRB-ed now and a new final coat of asphalt will be laid over the next week or so. Paving those two sections of SC 186 is 7.5 miles, and will finish Highway 186.  </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">SC 133, this is part of the same contract and will be repaved after SC 186 is finished. The SCDOT will start on North Main Street Six Mile, repave through the town and south to Clemson (Calhoun Street). This project is a total of 6.6 miles and will be finished before the holidays. Looking at SC 183 from the Greenville County line heading west to Jim Hunt Road (just past the Super Stop), the SCDOT will use a different method here. In the fall, the worst areas will be milled down 8 inches, then square patched. In the spring of 2025, they’ll mill that entire 2.8 miles about 3 inches deep and then repave it. This is not related to the widening of parts of SC 183, which is a long-term project that will take 5 to 7 years. A lot of people ask about SC 183 from Pickens to SC 135 (Fairlane Flats). That is not scheduled for repaving yet, but the SCDOT realizes it is in “awful” shape. Fingers crossed on that.  </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">SC 135 is part of the same contract, so the schedule and method is the same as SC 183. The SCDOT will repave 6.3 miles from Highway 186 south to Alfred Road in Easley (by the Hospital).  </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">Fleetwood Drive will be repaved as well.  </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">For my Pickens constituents, W. Cedar Rock, E. Cedar Rock, Monroe and Hampton Av will be repaved under this contract and time frame as well. </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">Next year, looking at SC 93 in Easley, from US 123 through downtown Easley to SC 8 will be repaved. This 2.6 miles or repaving will go out for bid next year. </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="center" class="s1540" style="text-align: center;"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"><img src="alex_i000001.jpg" border="0" align="middle" width="498" height="314" /> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">  </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">SC 8, from the Ross Avenue (4-ways stop just above US 123), northward past the old Woodside Mill to the top of the hill just before the Arial Plant (at Mulberry Rd) is scheduled for repayment (see above). That 2.6 miles will go out for bid next year. US 178, this is a multi-county federal/ state project that has been approved. US 178 in Anderson and southern Pickens County will be repaved. The repaving of the 3.9 miles from the Anderson line to Liberty (to the Spinx) will go out for bid in Dec and the job will be done next year.  </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="center" class="s1540" style="text-align: center;"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"><img src="alex_i000002.jpg" border="0" align="middle" width="344" height="336" /> </font></div> <div align="center" class="s1540" style="text-align: center;"> <font style="font-size:11pt;"> </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540"> <font style="font-size:11pt;">On US 178, up this way, from Mauldin Lake Road north to Main Street, Pickens is 2.63 miles (see above). This repaving project goes out for bid next year.  </font></div> <div align="justify" class="s1540">  </div> <div align="center" class="s0"> <a class="s0" href="index.htm">Home</a>   <a class="s0" href="alex_000001.htm">Write-ups</a>   <a class="s0" href="alex_000006.htm">Videos</a>    <a class="s0" href="alex_000004.htm">About Us</a> </div>