Commuters and

Peachtree City residents have a month to go before work is complete on

repaving the length of Ga. Highway 74 from I-85 in Fulton County south

to Starr's Mill.

Despite 18

days of rain within the contract period for completing the work, the crews

are on schedule to finish the project by July 23, said Dorothy Daniel,

communications officer with the state Department of Transportation.

"They've

had 18 rain days, but on the days it didn't rain, it's been moving real

well," said Daniel, confirming that another couple of weeks of detail

work like shoring up road shoulders and putting down stripping will extend

the final project finish date to early August.

"Weather

permitting," she added.

To help alleviate

congestion on the already busy Hwy. 74 corridor, the work is being performed

at night, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. The work has been particularly frustrating

for drivers within the past week, as the crews are now on the two-lane

stretch of Hwy. 74 below Ga. Highway 54. Closing one lane to all traffic

and rerouting it to a single lane has caused bottlenecks in the early

evenings, especially around the industrial park.

The repaving

is part of the state DOT's regular maintainenance program. Hwy. 74 is

still planned to be four-laned south to Starr's Mill sometime in the future.