(WPDE) — A long-discussed plan to ease traffic between the Carolinas is back in flux after North Carolina transportation officials pulled back from a proposed route that would have cut through a Calabash farm.
The Carolina Bays Parkway Extension Project aims to relieve traffic crossing state lines by extending Highway 31 from Highway 9 in Horry County into North Carolina to Highway 17 in Brunswick County.
Sallie Lun, who owns Indigo Farms in Calabash just over the state line from Little River, said the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) preferred proposed route for the project would have run through her farm off Highway 57 North…