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Don’t be shocked by downtown Lexington’s first one-way streets.

The one-way project will go live Saturday, June 23.

This is the first traffic and tourism project funded by the 2% hospitality tax.

Its purpose is to make the intersection of Main Street at Lake Drive flow more efficiently.

By splitting the northbound and southbound traffic, the signals at Lake Drive and Church Street can service twice as many vehicles as they do today. This increase in efficiency will allow better traffic flow on east and west Main Street.

For more on the project, visit www.lexsc.com/271/Downtown-Improvements

Mayor Steve MacDougall updated the Town Council on the vision plan at its meeting June 11.

“It’s been a busy spring,” he said.

The town just wrapped up its live concert series. The eighth annual wine walk raised approximately $180,000 for town beautification this year. Over 1,000 people attended the first 2018 ticketed concert in Lexington when Sister Hazel performed, MacDougall reported. The profits earned will help fund additional concerts at the theater.

The farmer’s market is now open for the summer, and free movie showings will continue at the amphitheater in July.

These events are all part of the vision plan initiated in 2012 by the Town Council.

The town brought in professional urban designers to help develop the plan as a “road map”for long- and short-term goals, MacDougall said.

The plan helped create the amphitheater, the dog park and Lexington Square Park.

The issues being addressed now are primarily “traffic-related,” he said.

Because “nobody had helped us with road improvement,” he said, the council pulled itself up by the bootstraps.

Additional projects to address concerns with congested traffic are planned for the future. MacDougall said the vision plan, a “moving document,” will continue to be reviewed daily.