Eleven people, and every restriction around them is the state’s
The federal mine regulator records eleven employees at Lowrys Quarry, 3.64 miles from the middle of town. Within ten miles of that gate the bridge file records 97 structures, of which 16 are posted for load and 23 are coded below legal loads — 23.7%, close to one crossing in four.
Every single one of those twenty-three is state-maintained. Not one county bridge and not one city bridge appears in the set, which sounds like a verdict on the county and is not.
Why the county is absent
York County maintains three bridges in total
That absence has a plain cause. York County maintains three structures altogether and posts none of them, so there is almost no county tier here for anything to be wrong with.
It is why the count belongs beside the rate every time. Across this state the county tiers are wildly different sizes — York three, Chesterfield three, Richland fifteen, while Anderson maintains 133 and Spartanburg 170. A posting rate taken over three bridges and one taken over 170 look like the same kind of number and are not.
The crossing that actually sets the ceiling here is a state secondary road 9.02 miles out, rated 13.6 metric tonnes, about 15.0 US tons. The lowest rating in the set is 7.8 tonnes, under that tare, so that one takes no commercial vehicle at all; the nearest restriction of any kind is 1.94 miles from the gate.
Stone out of the Lowrys Quarry gate 3.64 miles from the middle of town, and the roads north past the crossing 9.02 miles away, are where most of it turns up.
Around the Lowrys Quarry gate 3.64 miles out, and on the state roads that carry it as far as the crossing 9.02 miles away, the same trucks come up for sale for the same reasons.