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The bad news: you’re still going to be stuck in traffic.

The good news: at least you’ll be on nicely paved roads.

The Legislature passed a $1 billion transportation funding plan last week, but don’t go looking for new rail lines or some towering new interchange that will solve all the problems on I-75 and I-285. What you’ll see instead is work on a mountainous backlog of maintenance: some resurfaced roads, filled-in potholes and bridges that can support the weight they were designed to carry.

“We may be able to do other projects outside of maintenance,” said state Department of Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry in an exclusive interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “But not like rebuilding 285 or something huge like that.”

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