Government at its finest. The road is not needed anymore, but once the wheels are set in motion....

Government is wasteful at best. I think someone forgot to tell the DOT that we, as a nation, are experiencing economic hard times. Let them take some of that money and utilize it somewhere else. Education would be a good place. Oh wait, the DOT doesn't share! Our tax dollars are THEIR money and they will spend it on projects not needed! Makes good sense to me!

Charles, to understand the Forest Hill plan you first have to understand how GDOT operates. A map is rolled out and a line between two points is drawn. The line might be justifiable or just a wish of a politician. Either way, construction is started along that line for a new or larger roads. A mile or two at a time, maybe 10 miles at a time, but the road plan is pushed forward. It might take 40 years, but by God, they will connect the two points. This is happening with Forest Hill (and Park Place) along a line from I75 @ Rocky Creek to I75 @ Northside Dr. It is also happening in Atlanta from GA 400 in the North to 675 in the South. Even last week the new Mayor of Atlanta was discussing a tunnel between the two points to accommodate a road GDOT has always wanted to build. There is no looking at how traffic patterns have changed since the initial line was drawn. It's just full steam ahead.

One could also look at the DOT project to expand the road/interchange at I-16/Ocmulgee East Blvd. This is another "full steam ahead" approach that Ward1 mentions. Brown and Williamson is no longer located in Macon. The plan, that was decided a decade ago, however, is "full steam ahead". Will the workers at GEICO benefit? Probably, a little. But the addition of an extra lane at the Weaver/Ocmulgee East would work just as well. It's insane to build a road to handle traffic that has since moved to North Carolina. But, that's our GDOT. We, the citizens of the state get to fund this irresponsible way of thinking. Common sense is not allowed when "connecting the dots".

You're probably wasting your breath fourthestate. Voters here all have drank the "everyone will pay if you approve a SPLOST" koolaid. We've given 1/2 billion dollars to the BOE and we still have a higher than average number of students in private schools. Road SPLOSTs are just as easily "sold" to Macon voters because it's the same flavor koolaid. Voters here LOVE it!

GDOT has already paid the Dunwody family (Mayor Reichert's Cousins) about $750,000.00 for two, small, right of way lots near Ridge Avenue at Forest Hill. which originally appraised for a little over $100.000.00.

Four the State, are you one of the other ex-politicians standing on the corner of Forest Hill Rd & Wimbish Road waiting to receive 7 times market value for your property???

Now that is where the real law suits should be starting.

Me'thinks the editors and publisher are smarter than our duly elected officials. Maybe one of them should run for mayor and/or county commission chair.

(And State Rep Allen Peake has recently called for a scaled back design of Forest Hill Rd, which would include resurfacing the existing road bed, reworking intersections and installing turn lanes at strategic locations. Mr Peake's suggestions would save 10s of millions of tax dollars, allow our Neighborhood to maintain it's God given, natural beauty and get the two times per day, traffic congestion problem solved. The idea is so simple that it has flown over the heads of our local, elected officials, who seem he!! bent on wasting 10s of millions of tax dollars during a statewide fiscal depression-recession.)
-V