Tecklenburg thanks SIB for bringing I-526 Extension ‘back to life’

Wednesday, the State Infrastructure Bank board voted unanimously to extend the deadline for Charleston County to formally identify the local matching funds required to complete the Mark Clark Expressway.

In response, Mayor John Tecklenburg issued the following statement:

“I’d like to personally thank the members of the Board for doing their part today to bring this critical transportation project back to life. As I explained to the members this afternoon, completing the Mark Clark is absolutely essential to our whole region — for traffic relief, for evacuations and public-safety access, for bike and pedestrian infrastructure and more. Now, it’s up to us to do our part, first by formalizing the local matching funds, and then by working with our state and regional partners to finally begin moving the project forward toward construction.”