Augusta residents will have an hour Thursday evening to question project representatives about proposed improvements on Barton Chapel and Milledgeville roads, including construction schedules and potential traffic disruptions.
The Engineering Department’s open house is scheduled for 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at McDuffie Woods Community Center, 3431 Old McDuffie Road. The city’s Nov. 9 announcement invites residents and community stakeholders to attend.
The accompanying city flyer identifies the corridors: Barton Chapel Road between Wrightsboro and Deans Bridge roads, and Milledgeville Road between North Leg and Barton Chapel roads. Property owners and businesses are specifically encouraged to participate.
There will be no formal presentation. Attendees can arrive during the hour, examine maps and renderings, speak individually with project representatives and submit a comment card. That format gives people who use the roads a chance to raise questions tied to a particular driveway, intersection or daily trip rather than wait for a general question-and-answer session.
The meeting notice does not announce a new road closure or provide a construction completion date. It says anticipated schedules and traffic impacts will be among the subjects available for discussion.
The projects sit within a longer-running effort to improve the corridors. Georgia’s Transportation Investment Act project listing for Milledgeville Road describes widening and resurfacing between North Leg and Barton Chapel, along with curb-and-gutter reconstruction, sidewalks, lighting and storm-sewer work. The listing identifies the project as being in design, with an original budget of approximately $17 million. That figure is a program listing, not a newly announced construction contract.
For residents, the useful questions Thursday are practical: which sections would be worked on first, how access would be maintained, whether walking routes would change, and where the city will post schedule updates. The open house is the announced opportunity to put those questions directly to the people working on the plans.