(Media release) The Georgia Department of Transportation today approved more than $102 million in 25 new transportation infrastructure improvement and maintenance projects across the state, Commissioner Vance C. Smith, Jr., announced.
"With these projects, we have - just this summer - authorized more than $370 million in improvements to our transportation system," Smith said. "And we expect to approve another $100 million in new work at the end of this month.
"These projects are spread across our state and each one makes an important improvement to the capacity, safety or general condition of our highway system," he continued. "And just as, if not more, important, they put millions of dollars into our economy and provide jobs for Georgians."
Among the projects authorized are:
- A $42.6 million project in Floyd County to widen 5.5 miles of the West Rome Bypass from south of the Coosa River to north of State Route 20 as well as construct 10 new bridges in that corridor; awarded to C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., Inc., of Marietta;
- $23 million to be spent in Emanuel and Toombs counties for the widening of 8.5 miles of U.S. Highway 1/State Route 4; to be done by McLendon Enterprises, Inc., of Vidalia;
- The widening of two miles of the State Route 204 Spur and realignment of several adjacent streets in Chatham County for $9.4 million; Baker Infrastructure Group, Inc., Garden City, GA.;
- Rehabilitation work on several Interstate Highways 85 and 285 bridges in DeKalb and Fulton counties for $3.5 million; by Massana Construction, Inc., of Tyrone, GA.;
- Resurfacing 17 miles of State Route 158 in Coffee County; $3.1 million; to Ross Construction Company, Inc., of Tifton.
Information on construction and lane closure schedules for awarded projects will be forthcoming before work begins.
Further details on these projects and others awarded in the Department's August letting are available via this link: http://tomcat2.dot.state.ga.us/ContractsAdministration/uploads/A110819.pdf
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