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A new Explore feature displays eat, drink, sleep and shop cards. In addition to avoiding traffic, the new app also lets people avoid bad places to eat or stay. Google did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for clarification on whether Waze's traffic data is incorporated yet into this version of the Google Maps app. Google bought Waze, a popular social traffic app, in June. It will also alert you if there immediately becomes a better route to avoid traffic. Incident warnings will appear on the map where there is traffic, road closures and construction. The features are now available for Android phones and tablets, the iPhone and the iPad.Īll the apps offer the usual reliable maps and navigation with a common design and experience, but also now include more traffic data. In the past few weeks, Google has updated its Google Maps apps with new features, including live incident reports on road closures and new ways to find places to eat and visit. Robert B.J— - You're not the only one who's preparing for some summer travels. The entire route is in Charleston, Charleston County. As of May 2023, they are aiming to start construction by 2025. In 2021, SCDOT revived the 526 extension project. Ĭiting Charleston County's inability to provide funds to cover the project's increased cost, the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank (SIB) board voted on May 26, 2016, to abandon the proposed extension of I-526 across James and Johns Islands. Some alternatives shown include the possibility that it will be built in expressway grade instead, falling short of being labeled an Interstate Highway. Various alternative routings and options are being reviewed, but the general plan is to extend south from US 17 to Johns Island and then east to James Island, where it will connect with SC 30 (possibly renumbering it). The proposed missing section of I-526 was the subject of an environmental study that was completed in early 2014. The route was studied as a toll road in the 1960s, but it was determined that there was not sufficient traffic demand to fund the route and the bridge entirely by tolls. It opened on September 4, 1993, and provided a route off the island that did not require crossing a drawbridge. The current route was proposed as early as the 1960s to provide a second and more direct connection between James Island and downtown Charleston. In 1956, this became part of an extended SC 49. SC 30 was reused in 1935 as a renumbering of SC 15 from US 221 in Watts Mills to SC 92 near Cross Anchor. The remainder became part of US 401 in 1933. In 1927, it was truncated to Walterboro, as parts were transferred to US 17 and SC 28 (this segment is now part of US 21). In 1926, SC 39 was extended north with SC 4 from Santee to Summerton on a new route to Sumter, replaced SC 42 north to Bishopville, east with SC 34 to Lydia, then replaced SC 351 north to Hartsville, then northeast on a new route through Society Hill to Bennettsville, then replaced SC 38 northeast to the North Carolina state line at McColl. Mileage markers and exit numbers on both SC 30 and I-526 are based on an eventual merging of the routes: with miles 1 to 3 occurring on SC 30 and miles 10 to 30 used on the current I-526 route. Approximately seven miles (11 km) separate the eastern terminus of SC 30 from the eastern terminus of I-526's current extent. The route is an orphaned segment of Interstate 526 (I-526). Exit 2 has access to Harbor View Road and exit 1 is for the Herbert U. From there, the highway runs northeast, and has two interchanges south of the Ashley River crossing. The interchange consists of a half- diamond interchange. SC 30 begins at SC 171 on James Island at exit 3. The freeway travels from SC 171 on James Island to U.S. South Carolina Highway 30 ( SC 30, also known as the James Island Expressway or the James Island Connector) is a 3.050-mile-long (4.908 km) freeway in Charleston, South Carolina.

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