Mount Pleasant adds more bike lanes to Coleman Boulevard

MOUNT PLEASANT — After nearly a decade in the works, a new set of bike lanes will be unveiled along Coleman Boulevard.

Mount Pleasant’s Shem Creek area is a popular waterfront with restaurants, boardwalks and launching points for boats. A bridge overlooks the creek, where manatees and dolphins sometimes grace kayakers with their presence, and a recently-added bronze sculpture of the late shrimper Wayne Magwood stands.

Adjacent to this lively pocket of recreation is Coleman Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare that carries traffic coming off the Ravenel Bridge into Mount Pleasant. The cars zipping by have made it a stretch of road that even the most confident of cyclists avoid.

“For me, Coleman Boulevard has traditionally been terrifying,” said Katie Zimmerman, executive director of Charles