Three highway projects in the works

The South Carolina Department of Transportation has three highway improvement projects in the pipeline for 2015.  One of them will introduce a new concept for Oconee County motoring.  It’s called a roundabout and it’s on the drawing table for the accident prone intersection of Wells Highway and Strawberry Farm Road near Seneca.  Not far away a second intersection improvement is planned in 2015, at highways 59 and 24, known as the Tokeena Crossroads.  There DOT will contract for a new intersection.   A third project in the works is additional resurfacing on the Coffee Road, between Bush Creek Road and Doyle Street near Westminster.  About two miles of Coffee Road are to get a new topping, with the work scheduled for completion in August.