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State-funding for a highway interchange in Dillon County could jump start work on Interstate 73, a project originally proposed more than a decade ago that would connect Myrtle Beach to Michigan but has yet to gain sufficient federal funding, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) who with Grand Strand leaders this morning.
The $150 million interchange would connect U.S. 501 to Interstate 95 about 4 miles north of the junction with U.S. 38. About half of the funding is already available, so the state needs to appropriate the remaining $75 million, Graham said.
"Once you get the interchange built, it creates leverage for us to do more up in Washington," Graham said.
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