What’s in the state’s new paving program for Oconee

Spring is road-paving time in South Carolina.  Beyond the various projects for which contractors have been assigned, the state is already planning its 2024 paving program.  The Department of Transportation Commission this week added $775 million to the previously invested $2.8 billion into its current, 10-year plan.  In the plan’s seventh year, the transportation commissioners approved another 877 miles of roads to the more than 8,000 miles on ongoing work.  The new list of roadwork includes six Oconee County roads and streets.  The streets are sections of S. Fairplay and N. Oak in Seneca.  Others are rehabbing a near 2-mile section of highway 11; a little more than 1.5 miles of the Rochester Highway; nearly 5 miles of the Pickens Highway; and 4.3 miles of the Sam Brown Road.