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Contacts

  • Click here for a complete list of state, county, and city contacts


Road Maintenance

  • First you need to determine if it is a state or local road.  Click here.


  • For a STATE road fill out an SCDOT Maintenance Request Form.


  • For a COUNTY road fill out a Charleston County Work Order Request Form.


  • For a CITY road contact the city at the Citizens Support Desk at 843-724-7311, online at the Citizens Support Desk, email them at citizenservices@charleston-sc.gov, or text the CITIBOT at 833-990-2427.  You can also use the "City of Charleston" app that you can download from your app store.


Bike Bath/Sidewalk Maintenance

  • For bike path or sidewalk maintenance click here.


Road Repaving

  • Click here to request a road be repaved.


Encroachment

  • If you want to encroach into a SCDOT right-of-way (e.g. put a driveway in) go here to apply for an Encroachment Permit.

Johns Island Reports, Studies, etc

  • Johns Island Restoration Plan to Improve Flood Resiliency:  2021
  • Johns Island Maybank Highway Corridor Overlay Zoning District 
  • Charleston City Plan, Johns Island Feedback Session:  2021 
  • Dutch Dialogues Charleston:  2019
  • Johns Island Community Greenways Plan:  2010 
  • A New Way to Work:  2009
  • Maybank Highway Improvement Recommendations:  2009
  • Johns Island Community Plan:  2007
  • Johns Island Traffic/Corridor Study Report:  2001

Plans and DatA

Traffic Counts

  • SCDOT Historic Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) Data
  • SCDOT Traffic Counts
  • BCDCOG Regional AADT 

huricane evacuation

  • Hurricane drill along SC coast Thursday will test lane-reversal plans (8 June 2022)
  • Hurricane Evacuation Routes
  • South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Behavioral Study:  2011

LOCAL

 Charleston County

  • Charleston County Transportation Committee, Transportation Plan:  2020
  • Charleston County Road Funding


City of Charleston

  • Charleston Citywide Transportation Plan: 2018


Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council Of Governments (BCDCOG) (our region’s designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)

  • Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council Of Governments (BCDCOG) Charleston Area Transportation Study (CHATS)
  • BCDCOG CHATS 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
  • BCDCOG CHATS LRTP Bicycle & Pedestrian Mobility


State

Collisions

  • SC Department of Public Safety Traffic Collision (SCDPS) Fact Books
  • FOIA Request for Collision Data
  • SCDPS Collision Dashboard
  • SCDPC Fatalities Dashboard
  • SCDPS GIS Mapping Applications


Plans

  • SCDOT Strategic Plan
  • SCDOT 10 Year Plan
  • South Carolina Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Action Plan:  2022


Funding

  • SC Transportation Infrastructure Bank

Federal

  • Citizens Guide to NEPA
  • NEPA 101: Introduction to United States Environmental Policy
  • 2021 Infrastructure Law

Mobility AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

mobility PLANS

  • City of Charleston:  Johns Island Community Greenways Plan (2010)
  • City of Charleston:  Bike/Ped Presentation, (23 June 2021) 
  • City of Charleston:  Bicycle & Pedestrian Planning


  • BCD-COG:  LRTP-Bicycle-and-Ped (18 Dec 2019)


  • Rational Roads:  Multi-Use Path, Maybank-Main-Bohicket  (Sep 2023)
  • Rational Roads:  Multi-Use Path, Central Maybank (Oct 2023)

COMPLETE STREETS

  • Complete Streets
  • SCDOT Adopts New "Complete Streets" Policy

Public transportation

  • BCD Available Transit
  • Lowcountry Rapid Transit 

Community groups

  •  Charleston Moves (encourages mobility by bicycle, foot and public transit )

ROAD DESIGN

General

  • SCDOT Road Design Manual
  • SCDOT Right of Way Acquisition Manuals
  • SCDOT Access Management
  • SCDOT Functional Road Class
  • SCDOT Traffic Calming


  • A Roadmap to Understanding Transportation in Your Community 
  • Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks
  • The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits (video)

Traffic Calming

  • Traffic Calming Primer, US DOT FHA
  • SCDOT Traffic Calming Guidelines (2019)

Roundabouts

  • Roundabout benefits
  • Roundabouts and Rural Highways (dot.gov)
  • Roundabouts:  An Informational Guide (National Cooperative Highway Research Program)
  • Roundabouts spreading like Kudzu across South Carolina, despite some opposition (20 May 2017)
  • Modern Roundabout Intersections: A New Traffic Intersection Technology, That Is Not Actually New Turbo Roundabouts
  • Crash Reductions Following Installation of Roundabouts in the United States 
  • Roundabout Database
  • Roundabouts and Why They Work (video)
  • Roundabouts Improving Safety in South Carolina (video)

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