The Georgia Department of Transportation has put off until February the letting of bids for Oconee County’s Mars Hill Road widening project.
Brent Cook, District One preconstruction engineer, said Tuesday that right of way acquisition by the county is “running a little behind schedule,” making it necessary for GDOT to delay by five months the expected bidding for the $25.8 million project.
Actual construction on the roadway, from SR 316 to Hog Mountain Road in Butler’s Crossing, likely will start a couple of months after bids are accepted, Cook said, or in April or May of 2014.
Mars Hill Road is to be widened to four lanes with a median and turn lanes. It also will include sidewalks and bicycle lanes. In the next two phases of the project, the roadway is to be improved from Butler’s Crossing to Watkinsville.
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