Before Ga.

Highway 54 West is widened to four lanes in Peachtree City, it will cost

hundreds of thousands of dollars to relocate utilities currently in the

area.

Estimated costs

to relocate water, sewer and phone lines are in the neighborhood of $700,000

total, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. Burying

power lines, however, would cost $1.2 million according to early estimates.

Peachtree City

Mayor Steve Brown hopes to get utility representatives together at a meeting

soon to begin planning the timeline for relocating the pipes and wires.

He also hopes to find money for burying the power lines, which would be

an aesthetic improvement for the area, he added.

The road, once

widened, will have a grassy median in the center that city officials hope

to landscape after completion. The city already plans to use $600,000

in funds from an ARC grant to build a cart path bridge over the highway

near the former entrance to the Wynnmeade subdivision.

Also, the DOT

has chipped in money to help fund the "cloverleaf" design cart

path bridge that will span the current CSX railroad bridge after it is

also widened. The design will allow residents on the western boundary

of Peachtree City to cross the railroad tracks on their golf carts, a

feat that can currently only be done to the far south at the tunnel under

Kelly Drive or the far north at the cart path bridge over Ga. Highway

74 north near Oak Manor Court.

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