New traffic signal coming to busy SC intersection in Conway. Here’s when and where

A busy intersection in Conway is set to receive a new traffic signal early next year.

The South Carolina Department of Transportation will begin installing a traffic light at the intersection of East Cox Ferry Road and SC Highway 90 this month.

A corridor study on SC Highway 57 and SC Highway 90 prepared for the Waccamaw Regional Council of Governments in February identified the intersection as one of the “high-crash locations along the corridor.”

According to Horry County public information officer Mikayla Moskov, SCDOT expects to finish the installation by the end of January, though weather conditions could delay the project’s completion.

Per an agreement between SCDOT and Horry County, “SCDOT will install the signal through their contractor (with payment from the county),” Moskov said in an email.

Although plans for the project originated from the Horry County Council Infrastructure and Regulation subcommittee on SC Highway 90, it’s not a part of the Ride 4, Moskov told The Sun News in an email.

Ride 4, the local 1% sales and use tax voters approved in the November election, does include two other projects around the intersection on the county’s website.

The first will widen East Cox Ferry Road to four lanes with turn lanes at intersections with SC Highway 90 and SC Highway 544, and the second will widen SC Highway 90 to four lanes with turn lanes at its intersections with East Cox Ferry Road and US Highway 17. A full list of projects is available here.

“Any new signals installed through the RIDE 4 SC 90 project(s) will be identified through the design process for those projects,” Moskov said.