Meeting Street serves as the eastern gateway into the heart of West Columbia and the River District. The project corridor stretches approximately 4,700 feet from the 9th Street Intersection to approximately 150 feet east of the Alexander Road intersection and/or start of Gervais Street Bridge. Currently a (high speed) four-lane roadway, the city seeks to increase safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists through the redesign of the street corridor (that is self-enforcing of the speed limit), promotes walking and active transportation, and better meets the needs of West Columbia. A road diet from a four-lane highway to a two-lane divided highway with on-street parking, wide sidewalks, landscape medians, landscape buffers, and lighting, and development of turn lanes is currently planned. National best practices for speed mitigation, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and the design team’s local knowledge will be used to create a vibrant and engaging, people focused street corridor. In addition to the streetscape improvement project, the City will be installing a restroom building and paving a gravel parking lot adjacent to the Meeting Street Artisan Market.
