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Creasy Springs Road Dangerous City Council Says

  Creasy Springs Road in Northern Columbia has concerned city officials who want to take measures to make the road safer.

At its meeting last night, the City Council discussed how the road has been the site of many accidents and deaths in past years.

Mayor Bob McDavid described the road as a “narrow, two lane country road with no shoulder” that has straightaways and curves.

One such curve occurs after a long 35 mile an hour straightaway. The road then makes a quick, 90-degree turn, labeled with only a few signs and arrows following the bend.

Although the city has had the road on a list of projects needed to be completed, it has been unfunded for many years, according to the City of Columbia website.

“We’ve got $192 million of street and sidewalk projects in our city that we are nowhere near having the money to fund,” McDavid said. 

Third Ward Councilman Karl Skala believes it is the city’s responsibility to provide adequate signage to warn drivers of the dangerous curves on Creasy Springs Road, but it is also the citizens of Columbia’s jobs to make sure they are being safe and driving the speed limit.

“I’m guessing that these tragedies, these accidents, that happened are going at considerably more then 35 miles an hour down to a 20 mile an hour bottleneck,” Skala said.

The council agreed that a solution needs to be found to make the road safer. The mayor suggested purchasing big signs to warn of the danger, while Skala wanted to put emphasis on the speed limit being maintained properly on the road. 

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