Lexington County Council’s Congestion Crisis Is a Planning Failure

Anyone who lives in Lexington County feels it.

What used to be a quick drive down 378 or Highway 1 now takes twice as long. Intersections and feeder roads back up for multiple light cycles. Roads are patched, repatched, and still falling apart. You don’t need anyone to explain it, because you deal with it every day.

It’s easy to blame “growth” as the boogeyman, but the real problem is that our County Council has failed to plan for it all while continuing to approve it…

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