Several roads or lanes will be closed at various times in Columbia County starting Saturday and continuing into next week.
The section of Blue Ridge Drive between Evans to Locks Road and Fairfield Way will be closed 9-10 a.m. Saturday to accommodate competitors in the Lakeside High School Panthers 5K Run. No entry onto Blue Ridge Drive will be allowed from Evans to Locks Road. Northbound traffic on Blue Ridge Drive will be diverted onto Fairfield Way.
During the closure, access to and exit from Blue Ridge Commons, Blue Ridge Crossing, Lakeside Landing, Lakeside Town Homes and Wisteria Place will be prohibited, according to an e-mail from Columbia County Emergency and Operations Director Pam Tucker.
Iron & Steel Drive in Martinez will be closed starting Sunday morning until Wednesday afternoon while CSX Railroad performs maintenance on a railway.
Lanes of Furys Ferry Road will be closed from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Tuesday for landscaping work in the grass medians of the road. A lane of Furys Ferry road between The Pass and Boller Road will be closed as well as a 1,700-foot stretch of lane on the highway near the border of Richmond and Columbia counties. Motorists will need to merge to the right.
More landscaping work on Furys Ferry Road between Evans to Locks Road and Inverness Way will force a lane closure from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Wednesday. Again, motorists will need to merge to the right, Mrs. Tucker said.
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Gee more money and inconvenience for those of us in older neighborhoods. Rich money areas get landscaping while we get absolutely nothing for our tax dollars. I have an idea stop spending good money on something that helps nobody but Westlake people that have plenty of money already. Use the money for road repairs or maybe even something so novel as replacing less energy efficient traffic lights with new LED ones.
you have got to be kidding to prohibit all these people from leaving or getting home because of a run.
resident: You sound unhappy with your station in life. We all make choices early in our lives that determine who we are as well as our financial well-being. Those of us living in "rich money areas" benefit from our own hard work and do not collect from the sweat of another's brow. We pay higher taxes and therefore should benefit from the taxes we pay. Sorry that you are consumed by envy. I look forward to seeing my drive home from a hard day's work brightened by a few flowers and a manicured medium.
The end is near when people have landscaping envy.