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Thursday Meeting at Civic Center Offers Citizens Chance to Review T-SPLOST Project Plans

The Northeast Georgia Regional Transportation Roundtable will give Oconee County and other citizens a chance on Thursday night to preview its list of T-SPLOST projects.

The Northeast Georgia Regional Transportation Roundtable will give Oconee County and other citizens a chance on Thursday night to preview the list of projects likely to be before voters next August as part of the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum.

Included are improvements to five different Oconee County roads: Mars Hill Road/Experiment Station Road, the Oconee Connector, Daniells Bridge Road, Simonton Bridge Road and Jimmy Daniell Road.

The Thursday meeting will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Oconee County Civic Center, 2551 Hog Mountain Road.

According to a news release, no formal presentation will be made at the meeting. Rather, citizens will be able to view maps and discuss specific projects with members of the Roundtable.

Details about the projects at present are sketchy.

A review of the available documents, however, shows Oconee County got much less than it asked for, even for the projects that were included on the approved list.

And it shows that SR 316 will be improved if the tax referendum passes, but it will remain far from a limited access highway.

For details, go to Oconee County Observations.

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