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Calvary Church Road project nears completion
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A construction worker moves a pile of dirt Tuesday on Calvary Church Road at Candler Road in Gainesville. - photo by SARA GUEVARA | The Times
Except for work remaining at Ga. 60/Candler Road, improvements along a three-mile stretch of Calvary Church Road are mostly finished.“The contractor is going through (the corridor) cleaning up the shoulders, getting all the silt fences out,” said Jody Woodall, a Hall County engineer involved with the $4.2 million project.Work began last year on the road, which serves as a main artery for trucks going to industrial sites, including the 175-acre Gainesville Business Park.The two-lane, freshly paved road also is home to a number of county services, including the jail and animal shelter, as well as the Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center. The project stopped short of Chicopee Woods Elementary School, which sits about a mile from Poplar Springs Church Road.Revenues from the county’s 1 percent special purpose local option sales tax paid for the project, which called for softening curves, smoothing out hills, adding turning lanes and widening lanes. The project’s emphasis was making the road safer for travel.Work should finish by the end of June, as crews put in pedestrian crossing poles and stripe turn lanes on Calvary Church at Candler Road, Woodall said.Overall, he is pleased with the end result.“It rides out pretty nice,” he said.