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State to repave three city streets later this year
Tiles on square also being fixed
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Covington officials were surprised to discover the state had enough funding to resurface three city roads, despite the state’s severe budget crisis.Every year, the Georgia Department of Transportation resurfaces around $30 million of local roads across the state, those in the worst condition, as part of the Local Assistance Road Program (LARP). This year, however, with state revenues disappearing, LARP money was expected to be unavailable, but as Covington prepared its LARP application for 2010, it received word that three streets would be resurfaced in 2009.GDOT will be resurfacing Moon