Thursday, December 27, 2012

GDOT awards first stimulus contracts - Charlotte Business Journal:

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The DOT signed off on 36 projectws valued atabout $50 including four resurfacing jobs in metro Atlanta worth more than $2.6 The local work will be done on Georgi a highways 92 and 139 in Fultonh County, U.S. 19 in Clayton County and Georgi Highway 20 inRockdale County. Three of the four contractsa wentto , while the fourth was awarded to In selectinv projects to fund with federal stimulus money, the DOT lookef for highway improvements that could be startexd as quickly as Such “shovel-ready” projects tend to be those that don’r involve new construction, which requirese extensive environmental impact “This is all about creating jobs especially (in) those areas considered economically depressed,” said State Transportation Board member Dana Lemojn of McDonough, who representsz Georgia’s 13th Congressional which received one of the projectt awards on Friday.
The DOT is responsible for 70 percentg ofthe $932 millionm in highway system stimulus funds allocated to with the rest going to the state’ss 15 metropolitan planning including the .

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