Road planners may seek federal transportation money to perform a traffic signal/intersection improvement study for Dawsonville Highway at McEver Road, a commercially booming area of Gainesville. The Gainesville-Hall Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Hall County area’s lead transportation planning agency, is looking to pursue $160,000 for the effort, which would require $40,000 from Gainesville. “The city of Gainesville is exploring options to alleviate traffic congestion at the intersection,” states a brief memo from the city to the MPO. “We hope to see if we can make traffic flow a little better there,” Mayor Danny Dunagan said Wednesday.