S.C. House passes road-repair plan that includes Malfunction Junction fix

The S.C. House passed a plan Tuesday — 102-3 — that will pay for more than $4 billion in road-repair projects, sending it back to the Senate with five days left in the legislative session.

Under the 10-year plan, the Transportation Department says nearly 400 bridges would be replaced. Malfunction Junction — since 2008, the state Transportation Department’s No. 1 priority to fix — also would be reworked.

As part of the proposal, state representatives voted to change the structure of the commission that oversees the Transportation Department. The House approved giving the governor the authority to appoint all eight of that commission’s members.

House budget committee chairman Brian White, R-Anderson, said the proposal is the start to fixing S.C. roads.

This story was originally published May 24, 2016 at 6:06 PM with the headline "S.C. House passes road-repair plan that includes Malfunction Junction fix."