Daniells Bridge Road Flyover Reduced From Four Lanes To Two, Citizens Learn At Meetings Tonight

The Daniells Bridge Road flyover of SR Loop 10 has been reduced from four-lanes to two-lanes in the Madison Athens-Clarke Oconee Regional Transportation Study (MACORTS) 2015-2018 Transportation Improvement Program document on the agenda for approval tomorrow morning.

The document also has been altered to list the widening of Daniells Bridge to three-lanes all the way from Hog Mountain Road to the Oconee Connector, rather than just to Chestnut Hill Road.

Sherry McDuffie, a transportation planner with MACORTS, told me earlier today that the changes were made at the request of Oconee County and Georgia Department of Transportation officials prior to the meeting of the MACORTS Policy Committee at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

The changes in plans were incorporated into documents displayed by MACORTS as part of a public hearing tonight at the Community Center in Veterans Park.

The reduction of the size of the flyover also was discussed in a meeting tonight of the Oconee County Citizen Advisory Committee on Land Use and Transportation Planning.

Emil Beshara, director of Public Works for the county, said he had not been consulted about the change in the size of the flyover and that a two-lane road would not handle the volume of traffic projected for the roadway in 2030.

For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.