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Athens-Clarke County will receive a $1.7 million transportation grant

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre
Published June 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM EDT
A group of construction workers are laying down concrete on a sidewalk. The workers are wearing orange vests and are using a trowel to spread the concrete. Scene is hard work
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A group of construction workers are laying down concrete on a sidewalk. The workers are wearing orange vests and are using a trowel to spread the concrete. Scene is hard work

The State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA) awarded a record $26.5 million in Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (GTIB) loans and grants Tuesday that will help fund 13 transportation projects across the state.

Among the grants, Athens-Clarke County will receive a $1.7 million grant that will go toward realigning the intersection of Hawthorne and Oglethorpe avenues to improve overall safety and enhance the city’s sidewalk and bike networks.

Nearly $2.5 million in loans and grants will be used to build a single-lane roundabout in Barrow County at the intersection of State Route 53 and Mulberry Road and realign the intersection.

The project is expected to improve road safety and freight movement. The state funding will accelerate completion of the work by three years.
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Jeff Dantre
Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
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