Commissioners OK Dougherty Street Work, Adopt Budget Goals
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
The re-striping of Dougherty Street between Thomas and Pulaski streets in the northern edge of downtown Athens will begin today, following a vote last week by Athens-Clarke County commissioners to approve the project.
The work will transform Dougherty Street from what Commissioner Mike Hamby called “a bypass for downtown” into something more like the streets in the core of the downtown area. With the re-striping, the street will be transformed from two travel lanes in each direction, with center turn lanes and left turn lanes in some locations, to a route with a single travel lane in each direction with a center turn lane or left turn options along most of its length. The outside travel lanes in each direction will be re-striped as 72 metered parking spaces.
