DOT: No Thanksgiving Weekend Road Work

Teri Pope and our other friends at Georgia’s Department of Transportation (DOT) are good eggs!  There’s not one turkey among them.  To prove it, they’re sticking their necks out for motorists over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. To help local folks get to Lake Lanier and to help outsiders zip through …

Work Delayed on New Bridge Near Olympic Venue

The construction of the new bridge on Clarks Bridge Road / State Route 284 Bridge at the Lake Lanier Olympic Center has been rescheduled to begin before Thanksgiving. According to Georgia DOT District Construction Engineer Harold Mull, “Crews are moving equipment and materials to the project …

Politicians Reopen Corps Parks on Lake Lanier

Parks and services provided by the Army Corps of Engineers at Lake Lanier will return to normal soon. The morons we elected to run the United States government waited until the last possible moment to fund America — temporarily — and allow federal agencies and …

Federal Shutdown Closes Corps Parks

The United States government “shut down” at 12:01 AM this morning. The temporary absence of funding for entities run by the federal government — including parks run by the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) — will shut those entities down until funding resumes. We spoke with …

Update: Construction on New “Clarks Bridge”

  Thirteen years ago, preliminary engineering studies began on the project to replace Clarks Bridge over Lake Lanier where the Chattahoochee River flows into the lake at State Route 284/Clarks Bridge Road near the Olympic Rowing Venue not far from where I once hit a …