Citizens Asked To Comment On Metropolitan Transportation Plan

MACORTS, the metropolitan planning authority for Oconee County and its neighbors, is asking the public to comment on the 2045 draft of its Metropolitan Transportation Plan that includes 13 road projects in Oconee County on the prioritized project list.

Included is a last-minute update to the plan for widening Hog Mountain Road from Butler’s Crossing to U.S. 441. The update calls for a two-lane rather than four-lane road that also will include turn lanes, sidewalks and bike lanes.

MACORTS staff will hold a public meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sept. 9 at Oconee Veterans Park, 3500 Hog Mountain Road, west of Butler’s Crossing, to give citizens a chance to comment on the 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan draft.

Meetings also are scheduled on Sept. 10 for Athens-Clarke County and for Madison County.

The top Oconee County project on the list is the Clotfelter Road Bridge over Barber Creek in the northwest of the county, but the list does not include projects already in line for Georgia Department of Transportation funding, including SR 316 interchanges and the widening of Experiment Station Road from Butler’s Crossing to the U.S. 441 Bypass.

For more details on this story, including a video of the July MACORTS Technical Coordinating Committee meeting, please go to Oconee County Observations.