According to the Macon Telegraph, the Georgia DOT (GDOT) will be spending $30,000,000 of its share of federal stimulus funds to build a section of the Fall Line Freeway (Future GA 540) in Wilkinson County. Please click here to read the article.

After reading this news, I went to the GDOT website to get some more information.

First, I went to GDOT's Governor's Road Improvement Program (GRIP) webpage to get the Fall Line Freeway (FLF) fact sheet.

On Page 3 of the FLF fact sheet, the top part shows a map and rough route description of the section covered by the stimulus funds.

I then took the specific project numbers (221870, 262470, and 0000346) and then went to the GDOT Transporation Explorer (TREX) website in search of more detail. I found the projects in question, but in these cases, there were no engineering drawings or other documenatation to show what the road will look like upon completion. Hopefully, GDOT will eventually upload these documents to TREX for the public's inspection. Since it seems to be the trend of state governments to go to a so-called "e-government" concept, it would make sense to provide as much information as possible online, as opposed to requiring taxpayers to have to travel to government offices. This would benefit both government and taxpayers, since government could save money by reducing printing costs, and taxpayers would save money otherwise spent on having to physically travel to a government office.

Speaking strictly as a "roadgeek", I do look forward to the FLF being completed and would love to take a "roadgeek trip" along every mile of it. In fact, the FLF route goes through several counties that I have yet to "clinch".

Well, folks, that's it for now. Thanks a bunch for reading, please come back again, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

 

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