If you want

to know what the future holds in store for transportation in Fayette County,

state Sen. Mitch Seabaugh has a meeting for you.

Seabaugh will

bring state Department of Transportation officials to Fayette for a town

hall meeting Monday, July 23, at 7 p.m. at the Gathering Place in Peachtree

City.

"I want

the meeting to be very positive and upbeat and informative," said

Seabaugh.

Seabaugh also

will have a town hall meeting in Coweta County to address transportation

concerns there, and at both meetings presenters will touch on projects

of common concern to both counties.

DOT representatives

will present information on time tables for construction projects here,

and will hear comments from those who attend.

"What

are people's concerns ... are there any suggestions out there ... it's

an opportunity for the DOT to hear from the public," he said.

Many local

transportation projects have been on hold for years while state and federal

agencies, with involvement from environmental organizations, worked to

make sure future transportation plans include ways to reduce air pollution.

The Atlanta

Regional Commission's new three-year and 25-year transportation plans

were approved last year, but work was held up by an environmental group's

lawsuit.

A judge recently

ruled in favor of the state DOT, and officials are hoping that work can

now get underway.

Fayette's most

urgent project is widening Ga. Highway 74 south from its intersection

with Ga. Highway 54, and widening Hwy. 54 into Coweta County.

Local officials

also have been pushing to have a long-term project, construction of a

bypass around Fayetteville on Ga. Highway 85, moved up on DOT's schedule.

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