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From County Planning Files (Lee Becker)
Georgia Department of Transportation Chief Engineer Meg Pirkle has overruled the District 1 project team in favor of a full access median commercial break for a major shopping center on the Oconee Connector between SR 316 and Mars Hill Road.
In a letter dated April 6 and posted by Oconee County planning staff on the county website on Wednesday, Pirkle told land owner Maxie Price she was honoring Price s request for maintenance of the existing median break on the Connector and for an access cut to his property.
As such, she was overturning a decision by Jason Dykes, District 1 traffic engineer, who in an email message to Oconee County on Jan. 12 said the existing median opening would be closed as part of a more than $70 million reconstruction of the SR 316 interchange with the Oconee Connector.
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Federal funds will speed up road projects in rural Georgia by 13 years, officials say
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ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp announced on Monday that $277 million in federal coronavirus relief funding for the Georgia Department of Transportation will be dedicated to rural projects.
A statement from the governor s office said the strategic improvements would affect mostly Jefferson, Jasper, Putnam, Upson and Barrow counties. These improvements will mostly focus on the state s freight network. Officials said it s vital to transporting agriculture commodities, manufacturing inputs and consumer goods from production to distribution then, finally, to retail locations.
The funding allows the GDOT to move up outer-year plans to the forefront 13 years ahead of schedule.