My Take: Malfunction Junction By Jess Willis | April 21, 2021 at 3:51 PM EDT - Updated April 21 at 3:51 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - One of the most heavily traveled intersections in Columbia is about to receive a one-point-six-billion-dollar makeover.
We are talking about Malfunction Junction, the stretch of highway along the I-20, I-26, and I-126 corridors.
For years, the poorly designed interchange has caused rush hour traffic to turn into a parking lot.
According to the South Carolina Department of Transportation, more drivers crash in Malfunction Junction than any other highway system in the state.
But a change is coming, the plan dubbed as the “Carolina Crossroads Project” is set to redesign the dangerous bottleneck starting this fall and be completed by 2029.
Randy Parton, namesake of one of the worst boondoggles in recent N.C. political history, has died at age 67.
The bass-playing younger brother of cultural icon Dolly Parton died of cancer, according to a statement from the Parton family.
Randy Parton saddled state and local taxpayers with millions of dollars in debt from a performing arts center he arranged in 2005 with subsidies from a regional economic development partnership and money from other investors.
Carolina Journal reported extensively on the project.
The Randy Parton Theatre was a 35,000 square-foot, 1,500-seat music hall off Interstate 95 in Roanoke Rapids. Developers pitched the theater as the anchor of Carolina Crossroads, a planned 1,000-acre entertainment, retail, and lodging complex.