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Plans are underway for a major overhaul along a busy and dangerous highway in the region, a project forcing some people out of their homes.

UpdatedMon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:31 am ET Reply Jamie Boswell (GDOT) Boswell Properties, owned by State Transportation Board member Jamie Boswell, is at the center of the rezone involving his client Maxie Price that is before the Oconee County Planning Commission on Monday night. Boswell not only is listing the 47 acres owned by Price, but he has been informed of a decision by Georgia Department of Transportation senior officials to overrule regional engineers who had rejected Prices request for a...

Reply Jeff Hood At Town Hall Meeting (Lee Becker) Between 2024 and 2027, the Georgia Department of Transportation will construct full interchanges with flyovers on SR 316 at the Oconee Connector and at Jimmy Daniell Road as well as a flyover of Virgil Langford Road without on and off ramps. These projects will be "bundled," Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell told in-person and remote participants in a Town Hall meeting last week. They are part of a improvements to the Atlan...

Reply From GDOT Documents (Lee Becker) Construction is scheduled to begin in 2024 on four of nine intersection projects in Oconee County that are part of a massive effort to transform SR 316 into what the Georgia Department of Transportation is calling "a freeway-style corridor." Included in the initial construction is a "bundle" of projects that will include multi-grade intersections at the Oconee Connector and SR 316 and at Jimmy Daniell Road and SR 316. The "bundle" also includes a bridge ca...