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DOT: Road funds may hit dead-end
Federal money could run out this summer
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Gainesville-Hall County MPO Director Srikanth Yamala, left, and Senior Transportation Planner Sam Baker at the annual transportation forum at the University of North Georgia- Gainesville. - photo by NAT GURLEY
District Engineer Bayne Smith reeled off a list of area transportation projects — particularly bridge work — planned or underway in Hall County to an audience Thursday at the University of North Georgia-Gainesville. The question is whether enough money will be there to pay for them all. Smith’s updates at the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce’s annual transportation forum followed remarks by his boss, Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Keith Golden, on what many have labeled as transportation’s version of a “fiscal cliff.”