Columbia road closure off I-26 in will last for 3 months
Construction near Columbia’s Malfunction Junction will close a nearby roadway for almost three months.
Arrowwood Road will close next Monday, May 22, between Gracern Road and Lawand Drive, the S.C. Department of Transportation announced Monday.
The affected road, less than a half-mile in total, runs under the interchange between Interstate 126 and Colonial Life Boulevard. It will be closed from 7 a.m. Monday until 7 a.m. Aug. 14, DOT said.
The closure will allow for utility work and bridge construction related to long-planned improvements to the nearby intersection of interstates 20 and 26 in the DOT’s Carolina Crossroads project — an area commuters have dubbed “Malfunction Junction” due to traffic congestion.
The multi-phase improvement project is meant to improve traffic flow, including adding a full-access interchange from Colonial Life Boulevard. The current on-ramp doesn’t allow for traffic heading west on I-126 toward the junction.
The recommended detour is taking West Colonial Life Road from Arrowwood Road to the larger Colonial Life Boulevard, then heading north to Bush River Road and west to the north end of Arrowwood Road.
The affected road includes the entrance to the Columbia Zen Buddhist Priory, a temple and meditation center that houses an order of Buddhist monks. Arrowwood will remain open to local traffic during the closure, DOT said.
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