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Georgia Department Of Transportation Project Officials Vague On Who Initiated Request For Oconee County To Approve Three Road Projects
Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin Davis said GDOT would have to say why three road projects had come before the county.
Georgia Department of Transportation Engineer Brandon Kirby said that the decision to send three project framework agreements to Oconee County for approval was the result of a “group effort.”
But he would not say who was in the group that decided it was time to move forward with the widening and reconstruction of Jimmy Daniell Road, the widening of Daniells Bridge Road, and the construction of an extension of Daniells Bridge Road with a flyover of SR Loop 10.
Those three projects will be reviewed by the Madison Athens-Clarke Oconee Regional Transportation Study (MACORTS) in a public hearing it will hold from 5 to 7 p.m. tomorrow night in the Community Center at Veterans Park on Hog Mountain Road.
The three projects also are likely to be discussed by the Oconee County Citizen Advisory Committee for Land Use and Transportation Planning, which will follow MACORTS and hold its usual monthly meeting tomorrow evening, also in Veterans Park.
The discussions will take place without an explanation of why the county is being asked at this time by GDOT to agree on a project time line and on sources of funding.
For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Oconee County Commissioner John Daniell.