GDOT Asks Oconee County Officials To Identify Projects For Possible Funding

The Georgia Department of Transportation has told Oconee County officials it expects to have money to spend on state highway improvements in the region and has asked the county to submit projects for possible funding.

Oconee County Public Works Director Emil Beshara told the Citizens Advisory Committee on Land Use and Transportation Planning of the state request at the Committee’s April 16 meeting and asked the members to react to two projects he wants to submit.

Beshara said he thought GDOT would be interested in creating a signal on the westbound exit of SR 316 to U.S. 78 and in paving an extra lane of Experiment Station Road between Bishop Farms Parkway and the on ramp to U.S. 441 southbound.

Beshara also invited the Committee members to make proposals of their own.

As of the end of the day Monday, Beshara told me, he had not yet finalized the list. He said that he expected to do so shortly.

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