County residents who travel

Lower Fayetteville Road as an alternative to Ga. Highway 34 may soon see

some improvements to the road.

The Coweta County Commission

signed off unanimously on on a local government agreement with the DOT

to provide nearly $6 million in improvements to the busy road.

Earlier in the year, the County

Commission had been reluctant to approve the document, since it was not

sure when payment would arrive from the state.

The funds are coming to the

county as part of an agreement to allow the Georgia Regional Transportation

Authority to operate commuter buses in the county.

The board approved the document

Tuesday after getting county administrator Theron Gay'sassurance

the county would start receiving the money once it started fixing the

road.

Commission Chairman Leigh Schlumper

also wanted a better idea of how the road would be fixed.

"Six million sounds like

an awful lot of money just to add two feet to the road," she said.

But Gay said the DOT funds

would widen the road, in addition to providing shoulders, softening curves

and improving dangerous intersections.

Sheriff Mike Yeager said his

department patrols the road on a regular basis, and tries to keep the

speed down.

"Unfortunately, we can't

keep somebody out there 24 hours a day," he said.

Schlumper hoped that softening

the curves would not create a "speedway' affect to the road,

but agreed to approve the governmental agreement and get some relief for

one of the county's busiest roads.