Tuesday, November 2, 2010

GDOT awards first stimulus contracts - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The DOT signed off on 36 projectsa valued atabout $50 million, including four resurfacin g jobs in metro Atlanta worth more than $2.6 The local work will be done on Georgiw highways 92 and 139 in Fulton U.S. 19 in Clayton County and Georgia Highwat 20 inRockdale County. Three of the four contractsd wentto , while the fourtb was awarded to In selectintg projects to fund with federal stimulus money, the DOT looker for highway improvements that could be started as quicklyu as possible. Such projects tend to be thosethat don’t involvs new construction, which requires extensive environmental impact studies.
“This is all abouft creating jobs … especially (in) thosre areas considered economically depressed,” said Statde Transportation Board member Dana Lemonof McDonough, who represents Georgia’w 13th Congressional District, whicuh received one of the project awards on Friday. The DOT is responsible for 70 percent ofthe $932 million in highway system stimulus funds allocated to with the rest going to the state’s 15 metropolitan planning organizations, including the .

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