LITTLE MOUNTAIN, S.C. (WIS) - Neighbors at the far northern edge of Richland County say the mile-and-a-half-long Jake Eargle Road has become too dangerous to ignore.

The road runs off Broad River Road in the Little Mountain area.

Residents describe it as narrow and crumbling.

They say the patchwork repairs by the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT), which maintains the road, do not hold up. They say they have waited years for proper fixes.

“I think that they need to be putting some more emphasis on some of these secondary roads that they’re not,” Betty Jo Amick, who has lived here with her husband for more than 50 years, said. “Even if they don’t do anything but come and try to do a little bit more with the potholes.”

The Eargles are distant relatives of the Amicks.

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