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Vogtle evacuation plan updated

...Road and Georgia Highway 24.? Develop comprehensive regional evacuation plans and work with local and state transportation departments to suggest road infrastructure improvements.The plant is about 15 miles east of the city of Waynesboro...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-01-21/vogtle-evacuation-plan-update
Augusta area's Georgia side ranks above, South Carolina side below state averages for structurally sound bridges

...as the 1920s, and roads were more narrow back then. Old bridges are commonly only 10 feet wide, but the state Transportation Department prefers bridges to be 12 feet wide, with shoulder room as well."We have a systematic approach," Poore...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2011-10-19/augusta-areas-georgia-si
Disclosure issues lead to DOT candidate rejection

...first candidate to be formally rejected by the committee. The panel was set up in a 2007 overhaul of the state Transportation Department and determines who joins the seven-member panel that sets priorities and makes spending decisions.Legislators...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-03-10/disclosure-issues-lead-dot-c
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Cagle urges state to sell little-used jet

...to help offset state budget woes. Mr. Cagle said the 1984 Cessna Citation jet is the least active in the state Transportation Department's seven-plane fleet and is "rarely used." "If this is the case considering our state is in need to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/04/01/met_516674.shtml
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Parkway extension to be discussed by leaders

...Parkway and Columbia Road, county planners in June moved a commercial node west to encompass the area. The state Transportation Department also plans to extend the parkway east to Hardy McManus Road as part of a $23.7 million project. Reach...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/31/met_516577.shtml
Metro | Grovetown High School
Relationships vex commissioner again

...months after her budding romance with the chairman of the board that selected her as commissioner of the state Transportation Department, Gena Evans is again facing tough questions about the intersection of her private life and public business...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/11/12/met_483106.shtml
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County shifts zone that will guide development

...opens in August 2009, Construction and Maintenance Services Director Scott Herring said this month. The state Transportation Department also plans to extend William Few Parkway east to Hardy McManus Road as part of a $23.7 million project...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/06/18/met_462560.shtml
Metro | Grovetown High School
Across South Carolina

DOT paid lobbyists $1.5 million since '01 COLUMBIA --- The state Transportation Department paid lobbyists $1.5 million from 2001 through last year, according to agency records. The agency told The Greenville News...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/02/24/met_188542.shtml
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State is against city plan for road

AIKEN --- Officials with the state Transportation Department say the city's plan to keep Silver Bluff Road two lanes won't ease congestion or the area's increased traffic -- two points...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/02/24/met_188545.shtml
Metro | Aiken City Council
State seeks to transfer roads

...billions of dollars of work waiting to be done on more than 42,000 miles of road in South Carolina, the state Transportation Department is studying a plan that would give responsibility for some roads to counties. Commissioner Joe Young of...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/09/24/met_144926.shtml
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