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Podcast: Spartanburg City News
Episode: City News Podcast: Breaking Down the New Downtown Streetscaping Plan
Description: Big changes are in the works for some of Downtown Spartanburg's most important streets. At their most recent meeting, City Council gave approval to a $2.3 million streetscaping plan that eight projects to be completed over the next two years. Among the plans highlights are extending the Mary Black Foundation Rail Trail into Downtown, providing a curb-protected bike lane for Converse Street, and a adding pedestrian-only traffic signal and crosswalk across St. John Street in front of the Chapman Cultural Center and USC-Upstate George Dean Johnson Jr. School of business. The plan also calls for the chicanes along E. Main Street...