Three mayors ask a Chamber crowd to back the half-cent transportation tax

At a Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Oct. 20, the mayors of Charleston, North Charleston and Mount Pleasant urged support for extending Charleston County's half-cent transportation sales tax through 2051, a $4.25 billion road and drainage program on the Nov. 3 ballot. Voters rejected a similar referendum in 2024.

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Traffic and flooding decide whether customers can reach your door, and the named projects include elevating Long Point Road, a Rivers Avenue overpass and extending the Battery seawall. Charleston Mayor William Cogswell told the room the alternative to the sales tax would be raising property taxes.