The South Carolina Department of Transport has broken the field of the I-95 Widening and Improvement project, a milestone in the long-term program of the agency to modernize its 200 miles part of the critic of the road on the East Coast.
Built by Ferrovial and its American subsidiary, Webber, the $ 825 million project has a construction cost of $ 729 million, making it the largest contract in SCDOT history. For the next five years, the project team will add a lane in each direction of a 10-mile stretch of I-95 that extends from a mile through the Georgia State line to the United States Roue 278 in Jasper County. The new Georgia Department of Transport will be coordinated and co-operated by the Georgia Department of Transport. About 15 bridges and two existing exchanges must also be updated to the current standards of the interstate.
Under a separate project, the city of Hardeaville plans to build a new exchange at the Miletapost 3 to support commercial, industrial, distribution and local residential development.
SCDOT claims that the project aims to improve the capacity, mobility and operations in which it has been a point of view along the road almost 2,000 miles in length, one of the oldest routes in the interstate road system. According to the Viability Report of the Agency 2021 I-95, the aisle is classified between the worst of the rural interest in terms of freight mobility. According to SCDOT, the average daily traffic volume in the north of last year exceeded 64,600 vehicles.
Under a program called Fixing the Drive, SCDOT plans a combination of improvement strategies to place all I-95 length for planned traffic volumes 2050.The total program calls for 36 miles of widening and nine exchange improvements, 95 miles of re-learning and preventive maintenance, 42 bridge rehabilitation projects and more than 100 kilometers of security improvements.
Some of the resurgence work have already been completed, while most extension and bridge projects are in design.
