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I don't know the area well but did drive through Myrtle Beach once on an expedition to look at Civil War coastal fortifications. We were passing by and drove through out of curiosity, MB being famous 'n all. The area was completely choked with cars. Nowhere to park. Bumper to bumper traffic moving at a crawl. You could have torn down half of Myrtle Beach to build parking garages and still not solved the problem. It's probably worse now.

Note to the car nuts: the answer to terminal congestion is NOT to build a new interstate highway to bring even move cars into an area that cannot handle what it already has.

The only way a new interstate would help beach traffic in Myrtle Beach would be for the interstate to run right along the coast, razing all the expensive housing developments and retail along the corridor. If the highway effectively sealed off the beach from access and made the coast unlivable, fewer people would go and traffic congestion would be much eased. Myrtle Beach could be like -- oh, the Philadelphia riverfront along the I-95 corridor. This should make car nuts happy. It doesn't seem like an attractive solution to me.

Land with ocean frontage is a limited, fixed asset. Myrtle Beach is already overdeveloped. It won't be improved by more cars. When it comes to transit options, too many people are still living in 1964, when we still had a border with Mexico and the U.S. population was "only" 180 million. Even then, we were building too many roads where we shouldn't have, and LBJ's great project to destroy America's cities by driving big highways through residential areas was just getting underway. People really need to look at the wreckage and take a clue.

“Car nuts”?

Not sure how you think that’s going to help your argument but I suppose that’s up to you.

In any case, cars are how most people get to and from Myrtle Beach and people are already there who need to have better options than to use a bunch of surface streets.

Rail would be utter idiocy because while it would go to Myrtle Beach you have to wonder where it would come from? Maybe people should be forced to use bicycles?

What’s your solution to the congestion problem you observed?

No one goes to myrtle Beach any more...going down down down...infested with crime!

Land with ocean frontage is a limited, fixed asset. Myrtle Beach is already overdeveloped. It won't be improved by more cars. When it comes to transit options, too many people are still living in 1964, when we still had a border with Mexico and the U.S. population was "only" 180 million. Even then, we were building too many roads where we shouldn't have, and LBJ's great project to destroy America's cities by driving big highways through residential areas was just getting underway. People really need to look at the wreckage and take a clue.

I like everything you said in your post. About the best thing about MB today, is that it is a prime example of what not to do. I can remember it the way it was in the 60s, and can appreciate NC and GA beaches where the locals did not sell out to development.

I just don't see the appeal to MB now, in its present state. But, I am not a golfer, nor do I live in a land locked state or Canada.