SCDOT

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for July 02, 2024: host Gavin Jackson’s interview with the new SCDOT secretary, Justin Powell; how the State Legislature's 2017 gas tax increase has affected state roads and the underfunded DOT; and more!

Justin Powell was sworn in at a ceremony held at the Department of Transportation headquarters in Columbia.

South Carolina's well-respected transportation leader Christy Hall is retiring after spending the past decade overseeing billions of dollars in highway spending after the state raised its gas tax to fix its roads.

Recent gas tax increases allow SCDOT to dramatically ramp up road and bridge work.

At the end of the month, motorists traveling Hilton Head Island's Cross Island Parkway will no longer have to pay a toll.

South Carolina will spend $642 million repaving roads through the end of 2022, the state Department of Transportation said.

South Carolina road crews are getting ready for the first of a five-part, $1.7 billion project to untangle where Interstates 20, 26 and 126 meet west of downtown Columbia.

When bridges get their weight limits dropped, emergency crews need to take notice. That’s particularly true with fire companies.“Our ladder truck weighs…