Infrastructure

If you own property in Athens, you might have noticed that your annual Stormwater Utility fee was higher than usual this year. Most people don’t know that it helps keep the roads from collapsing beneath our feet.

The money is being awarded through the federal Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Congress passed in 1998, the largest loan to a single borrower in the program’s history.

The grant will go toward realigning the intersection of Hawthorne and Oglethorpe avenues to improve overall safety and enhance the city’s sidewalk and bike networks.

At $1 trillion, this infrastructure bill is the largest long-term federal investment in decades for roads, waterways, broadband, and clean water, among…

The transition to an all-electric fleet and $25 million dollars for Athens Transit operations are among the projects that made the first cut for TSPLOST…

Georgia is one of 18 states getting a share in $905 million in federal infrastructure grants. Georgia’s share of the money, some $46.9 million, will go to…