Commissioners have agreed to continue with plans to purchase only enough right-of-way to make the Effingham Parkway two lanes wide. At their Tuesday meeting, commissioners decided that changing their plans to acquire enough right-of-way to eventually build four lanes would delay construction of the parkway a year, and that’s something they don’t want to do. People are ready for the road to be built “yesterday,” said Commissioner Vera Jones. Traffic studies indicate that two lanes will be sufficient to carry traffic on the road for the next 20 years, but after that, the parkway would need to be expanded to four lanes, County Administrator Toss Allen said. Chairman Wendall Kessler has said that purchasing enough right-of-way to build four lanes at the beginning of the project would save effort and money since the parkway eventually will be widened to four lanes. Federal road funding comes with restrictions that allow only enough right-of-way to be purchased for the road that’s going to be built immediately. But state funds allow additional right-of-way to be purchased at the beginning of a road project, even if only two lanes are to be built at first. County officials had been expecting to use federal funds to pay for the road, so their plans so far have been for a two-lane road and two lanes of right-of-way. But they learned in late January that the state will contribute $44 million of the $52 million cost to build the first two lanes. The parkway will be a new road that will stretch 6.36 miles, from Ga.
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G.G. Rigsby, Savannah Morning News
Fri, 03/04/2016 - 3:21pm
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