Ga. Road Projects Could Stall If Congress Doesn’t Reach Deal
Congress has until the end of the month to find a way to replenish the ailing Highway Trust Fund. If federal lawmakers don’t reach an agreement, it could affect Georgia highway projects.
The state says it has the $300 million needed to move forward with road projects for the next two months. But if Congress can’t figure out a short- or long-term fix for highway funding, Georgia would have to delay a number of the projects it has planned for the rest of the year.
“What we’ll see is a reduction in projects being awarded – a reduction in projects moving forward – which really then just gives us as a state a backlog of projects that are ready to go, but we can’t move forward with due to a lack of federal funding,” says Natalie Dale, a spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Transportation.
A U.S. Senate committee has come up with a bipartisan bill to provide six years of highway policy, but an agreement over how to fund the legislation has yet to be reached. Meanwhile, House lawmakers appear to be working on another short-term fix.
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