Governor Hodges says the amendments are excessive and promises to veto the bill if it reaches his desk. The final leg of the Conway Bypass opens officially Friday morning. The nearly 30 miles of highway gives drivers an option that eliminates a lot of busiest section of the congested Highway 501. The bypass is months ahead of schedule and costs a quarter million dollars less than expected. The project has won almost a dozen national and local awards since it began.
Planners say they're glad to have it open before the biker weekends and busiest parts of the summer.
The road is also known as Veterans Highway. At Cale Yarborough Honda in Florence, they can hardly keep them on the lot. Many are calling it the car of the future. It's formally called the Insight Hybrid Electric and Gas Car. The price of the car is comparable to gas powered cars its size, but the gas mileage it gets is almost unbelievable.