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SC highway commissioner opposes cutting I-26 trees
Posted: 02.20.2013 at 12:09 PM
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SCDOT said last week it wants to clear the trees and put up a center guard rail in the median. Between 2007 and 2011 there were almost 2,000 crashes on that section of the interstate causing 44 deaths and 709 injuries.  / FILE/MGN
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Not everyone is pleased with state Transportation Department plans to cut all the trees in the median on heavily traveled Interstate 26 between I-95 and Summerville.

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