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Balfour Parkway tops list as a traffic solution

A fix of the hazardous Erkwood Drive-Shepherd Street area of Greenville Highway is in construction plans, but not until 2015.

By Bill Moss, Published: October 3, 2013

Six months behind schedule, the Upward Road widening is expected to be finished next spring. Work on the Howard Gap Road straightening, leveling and widening continues, though it's only 11 percent complete. The DOT is repairing numerous bridges. The I-26 widening, derailed by a lawsuit 12 years ago, is still a long ways off. And Balfour Parkway, the city's long-awaited outer loop bypass, though nothing more than a line on paper now, ranks high as a long-range traffic solution.

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