GDOT Board Advances TSPLOST Construction | Georgia Public Broadcasting

ATLANTA — Board members of the Georgia Department of Transportation voted Thursday to move forward with the bidding process for what the DOT called the first large project funded through the Transportation Investment Act.

TIA has been commonly referred to as T-SPLOST, or Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. Last summer, three regions of the state voted to enact the special tax to pay for transportation projects. Of the funds collected, 75 percent go to larger, predetermined projects shepherded by the DOT and 25 percent go to the individual cities and counties that approved T-SPLOST.

Bidding will begin Friday for the project, which will widen U.S. 27 in Randolph County.

“After completion of this project, we will have four lane connection from Columbus to Tallahassee and that’s a big milestone and it is fantastic that it was a part of TIA,” said Sam Wellborn, who represents the 3rd Congressional District on the GDOT board.

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