Plans to widen

Ga. Highway 74 South in Peachtree City to four lanes any time soon have

come into question.

Peachtree City

Planning Commission Chairman Wes Saunders noted at Monday's meeting that

the commission had based a number of its previous decisions on the widening

occurring. But he thinks the project is so far off into the future that

the commission shouldn't count on it happening soon.

"I'm not

so sure we should do that anymore," Saunders said of counting on

the road widening.

City Planner

David Rast said he has heard of a local push to fast-track the project,

with a possibility it could be put on the Atlanta Regional Commission's

list of road projects for the following year. Rast added that he didn't

know how the Fayette County Commission's recent decision not to run a

regional bus system would factor into the decision on the Hwy. 74 widening.

Saunders pointed

to the new Publix shopping center on Hwy. 74 South, saying he felt the

road would certainly be widened by the time it came on line.

Rast said the

status of the widening plans should be clearer within the next couple

of weeks.

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