Oconee Commissioners Discuss Daniells Bridge Road Projects During Primer On MACORTS

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners Monday night got a primer on the operation of the Madison Athens-Clarke Oconee Regional Transportation Study (MACORTS), the regional transportation planning body of which the county has been a member since 1980.

Next they heard from the county director of strategic and long range planning, who moved project by project through the county’s listings in the MACORTS planning documents.

The proposed widening of Daniells Bridge Road and the proposed construction of an extension of that road that would fly over SR Loop 10 to connect with the stub of the Oconee Connector at Home Depot figured prominently in both presentations.

At the end of the hour-and-25-minute-long meeting, however, the Board seemed no closer to reaching a decision on what to do with the two projects than it was at the beginning of the month, when it heard from citizens and spent more than two hours with the issue before postponing a decision until April.

For details of the story, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: BOC Chairman Melvin Davis