Fall Line Freeway gets final funding

[airforceguy]

Fall Line Freeway gets final funding
One of Georgia's longest unfinished road projects took a major step toward completion Wednesday with the announcement of a contract to build the last section of the Fall Line Freeway.

The final nine miles of the highway linking Columbus, Ga.; Macon, Ga.; and Augusta, Ga., will be built between Georgia 24 and U.S. 441 in Baldwin and Wilkinson counties. The $58.3 million contract went to Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc. of Fleming Island, Fla.

When the work is done late in 2015, the entire 215-mile stretch of highway will include four lanes.

The Georgia Department of Transportation has spent more than $500 million on the Fall Line Freeway since the Governor's Road Improvement Program began in 1989.

"This is a great day for Middle Georgia and a great day for the GRIP program,"  said State Transportation Board member Johnny Floyd of Cordele. "The Fall Line Freeway and the other GRIP corridors will help Georgians in their daily lives and also help us sustain and grow Georgia's economy."

The GRIP was conceived as a network of four-lane divided highways across the state that would give residents and businesses in rural Georgia easier access to the interstate highway system and serve as an economic development tool for those communities.

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[Tom958]

I always thought they should call it the Fall Line Four Lane. More accurate and doubly alliterative to boot.