...just doesn't put a shovel in the ground overnight."Collections began Jan. 1 for the 1-percent tax for transportation projects that voters in a 13-county area encompassing Augusta approved last July.In the first three months of the...

...Washington Road at Towne Center Drive.About $20 million of the project is funded by the 1 percent sales tax for transportation projects, approved by voters last July. The remainder is state and federal funding, Brewer said.The extension will...

...the project beginning in October.Using funding from the 1 percent special purpose local option sales tax for transportation projects, River Watch Parkway will be extended from its endpoint at Baston Road. The new section of the road will follow...

...tax collections that Augusta depends on for capital projects, operations, school construction and, soon, transportation projects were down nearly 5 percent in February over last year.According to a news release from the city, local option...

...it would be a boost to his home region which just began collecting an additional sales tax for the benefit of transportation projects there.Fleming said he introduced the bill as part of his campaign pledge to eliminate the state's income...

...13-county region encompassing the Augusta metro area collected nearly $4 million in January for tax-funded transportation projects.The first month's collection of the transportation special purpose local option sales tax netted $3.97...

...website (http://www.columbiacountyga. gov/bid/). This is a Federal-Aid/Georgia Department of Transportation project. Successful bidder will strictly adhere to all pertinent Federal guidelines, all Georgia DOT regulations...

...collections begin for a new sales tax to fund special transportation projects over the next decade.Forty-six Georgia counties...by the new 1 percent regional sales tax for transportation projects that was approved by voters on a July 31 referendum...

...directly to each local government in the region for transportation projects of their choosing, while the bulk of the money...where it failed pay more for their share of transportation projects as a penalty. CONSTRUCTION WAS ALSO on the...

...would lift a penalty for nine of Georgia's 12 regions that did not pass the 1 percent regional sales tax for transportation projects.The Transportation Investment Act of 2010, which mandated July's tax referendum, makes regions that did...