SCDOT approves $576M Pavement Improvement Plan

AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - The South Carolina Department of Transportation approved the 2026 Pavement Improvement Plan, and it comes with some upgrades to major roads.

According to a news release, it will cost $576 million to complete the work on 732 roadway miles statewide.

This will be added to the previously approved 7,700 miles of road upgrades outside the interstate system.

The improvement plan is part of the S.C. Department of Transportation’s 10-year strategic plan to accelerate road maintenance.

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According to the plan details, funding is distributed to the different road systems either through statewide allocation or county-by-county allocation.

Statewide allocation includes intestates, and county by county allocation includes major roads, farm-to-market secondary roads and neighborhood streets.

The plan includes the preservation, preventative maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction of these road systems.

In the neighborhood streets category, preventative maintenance is scheduled for 1.1 miles of Silver Bluff Road and a quarter-mile section of Ridgecrest Road.

Approximately a half-mile of Silver Bluff Road is set to be rehabilitated as well.

Rehab work is also planned for Chafee Spring Road, Crestwood Drive, Fairway Road S.W., Heathwood Drive, Henry Street, Hillcrest Road S.W., Royal Street and Valley Green Drive S.W.

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Included in the plan is rehabilitation for a 3.02-mile section of Columbia Highway North to be completed next year.

Rehab work is also planned for 2.26 miles of Robert M. Bell Parkway, 2.09 miles of West Martintown Road, 1.71 miles of University Parkway and less than a tenth of a mile of Hitchcock Parkway.

Preventative maintenance is scheduled for a 3.12-mile stretch of Old Graniteville Highway/Senn Street.

In the Farm to Market Secondary Roads category, 5.81 miles of North Silverton Street, 2.52 miles of Powderhouse Road, 1.65 miles of Chime Bell Church Road and approximately three-quarters of a mile of Mt. Beulah Road will be rehabilitated.

You can view a full map of the pavement program here.