No Left Turns from North Shore

The Harbor View Road Improvement project made North Shore right-turn-in and right-turn-out only.   The traffic engineers (and anyone with any common sense) could see that turning left on Harbor View Road was unsafe.   The visibility is poor as cars head onto big James Island down the causeway after the Buxton bridge.  

Of course, we all know that there were many people who drove down Dills Bluff to North Shore until they hit Harbor View and turned left.   In the morning traffic jam, they would avoid the traffic on Harbor View.   Some people would stop and let them in, holding up everyone trying to leave the Island.   No more.

If you are going down Dills Bluff and you want to get onto Harbor View, you can turn down Fort Sumter and catch the light or else you can turn down Waites or James.   Don't keep "straight" on Dills Bluff as it turns into North Shore and then comes to Harbor View.   You then have no choice but to turn right.   You need to go around a "block," perhaps down to Waites and then back down James to Harbor View.

The most hard headed people just won't give up.   They still turn left at North Shore to get onto Harbor View Road.   It is practically a u-turn!

The Island Sheriff's Patrol has been assigning officers to give tickets to those attempting this maneuver.   The intersection is in the City of Charleston and so the City police are working on the problem as well.

Some traffic control devices will be added to make it even more plain that there are no left turns out of North Shore to Harbor View.

Stop doing this now!