Joe Walter and Melvin Davis lay out their T-SPLOST plans
There is a long way to go and much winnowing down of desires before Oconee County gets to vote on whether to add a penny to pay for transportation projects in August of 2012, but we have our lists better ready than our neighboring counties to begin construction of many needed potential T-SPLOST projects. Mayor Joe Walter and Chairman Melvin Davis That was the gist of the presentation to an intimate gathering of concerned Democratic committee members Maundy Thursday evening who listened to Watkinsville Mayor Joe Walter list three and Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin Davis discuss a dozen different decisions where this added cent could facilitate projects like the long sought after bypass around Bishop. Traffic circles could be in the future for Oconee County. These have been implemented successfully in the Druid Hills section of DeKalb County near Emory University where traffic is horrendous very near 24 hours a day and seven days a week anywhere inside the At...
