FORT MILL TOWNSHIP--As more people move here, more cars will start to clutter the roads.

Worries about meeting future transportation needs spurred county planners to involve those already familiar with countywide road projects: the Pennies for Progress one-cent sales tax group, the Rock Hill-Fort Mill Area Transportation Study (RFATS) group, and the county's own transportation planning staff.

Eric Greenway, the county's planning and zoning director, wouldn't reveal any specific details about the transportation elements of the proposed plan, but it almost certainly will take advantage of the road construction projects already on the drawing board for York County.

Those projects include $173 million in roadwork paid for by the penny sales tax that voters approved last fall. Of that $48.4 million will pay for seven road improvements in Fort Mill Township.

TOWNSHIP--As more people move here, more cars will start to clutter the roads.

Worries about meeting future transportation needs spurred county planners to involve those already familiar with countywide road projects: the Pennies for Progress one-cent sales tax group, the Rock Hill-Fort Mill Area Transportation Study (RFATS) group, and the county's own transportation planning staff.

Eric Greenway, the county's planning and zoning director, wouldn't reveal any specific details about the transportation elements of the proposed plan, but it almost certainly will take advantage of the road construction projects already on the drawing board for York County.

Those projects include $173 million in roadwork paid for by the penny sales tax that voters approved last fall. Of that $48.4 million will pay for seven road improvements in Fort Mill Township.

Fort Mill's roadwork

Fort Mill Township is scheduled to get $48.4 million in roadwork over the next seven years: • Extending the southern bypass around Fort Mill from Tom Hall Street to Banks Road. Cost-$15.1 million. • Creating a connector road off Gold Hill Road to give Tega Cay a second entrance to Stonecrest. Cost-$1.5 million. • Widening Hwy. 21 from two to five lanes from Rock Hill across the Catawba River bridge to Sutton Road. A new bridge will be built. Cost-$17.1 million. • Widening Hwy. 160 from two to three lanes from Springfield Parkway to the Lancaster County line. Cost-$2.5 million. • Widening Springhill Farm Road from two to five lanes from Hwy. 21 to Hwy. 51. Cost-$4.6 million. • Widening Hwy. 51 from two to five lanes from Hwy. 21 to the state line. Cost-$5.9 million. • Widening Hwy. 160 from Gold Hill Road to Zoar Road. Cost-$1.6 million.