Lewiston Road construction updates, business owners speak out

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Again in 2017, the Lewiston Highway development venture widened each lanes coming off of I-20 to ease site visitors issues, now engineers say it’s nearly over.

Final week, we up to date you concerning the highway work, now we’ve talked to engineers and native enterprise house owners concerning the updates.

Now Columbia County engineers say they’re 70% performed with the venture. But enterprise house owners within the space say it must be performed sooner than that.

It’s been a whole lot of frustration over time when it’s come to this venture, automobiles hit Lewiston Highway, site visitors backs up and it doesn’t assist development.

Companies subsequent to the highway say the development stops individuals from coming in.

Juan Galvan, supervisor of La Cocina Del Rey, says, “Folks don’t wish to cease. So there are specific instances. As I mentioned three to 5 is, sadly, our gradual time as a result of we all know a whole lot of site visitors and no one desires to cease by.

Galvan is likely one of the managers for the domestically owned Mexican restaurant in Grovetown, they’ve been at this location for 4 years, and site visitors has been getting worse as a result of development since they opened.

Galvan says, “There was all the time site visitors on this space due to the entryways from the freeway. But it surely wasn’t this unhealthy at this level.”

The whole plaza often has a fundamental entrance, to permit automobiles to return in however now just one is open.

“This plaza itself has two entrances, however our fundamental entrance is blocked off as a result of they’ll’t use it. So we simply had this small entrance so individuals needed to go go all over the lights throughout to return in by means of right here, so I do know lots of people simply resolve I’m not gonna do it,” Galvan says.

Leaving the restaurant to need to adapt to one thing out of their management.

“Take-out orders have skyrocketed due to site visitors. So individuals nonetheless wish to eat us they simply don’t wish to take care of site visitors,” Galvan says.

And are general optimistic about this completed product.

“The road itself is as soon as they get performed. It’ll be good. It’s simply taken. It’s simply taken some time. I believe they began once we opened up and so they’re nonetheless going. So hopefully it’ll be performed quickly,” he says.

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