Politics & Government
Committee Votes To Remove U.S. 441 Widening In Oconee County From Federal Transportation Planning Documents
The action follows a decision by the Georgia Department of Transportation to use exclusively state funds to finance the project.
The Technical Coordinating Committee of MACORTS, the regional transportation planning organization, recommended on Wednesday that the widening of U.S. 441 with the bypass of Bishop be removed from its planning documents.
That action follows a decision by the Georgia Department of Transportation to use exclusively state funds, rather than state and federal funds, to finance the project.
MACORTS (Madison Athens-Clarke Oconee Regional Transportation Study) is a federally mandated metropolitan planning organization for local road projects involving federal funds.
The recommendation of the Technical Coordinating Committee now goes to the MACORTS Policy Committee for final action. The Policy Committee is scheduled to meet on Feb. 10.
At that Feb. 10 meeting, the Policy Committee also is scheduled to take action on a recommendation of the Technical Coordinating Committee from Wednesday that MACORTS planning documents be amended to add a multi-grade intersection for SR 316 and the Oconee Connector.
For details of this story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Russ Page.