GEORGIA STATE EDITION
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Crews Finally Set to Finish Savannah’s Truman Parkway By Eric Olson
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Residents of Savannah, Ga., will soon be able to rejoice as a massive road project that was first discussed more than 40 years ago, is finally nearing completion. Work began earlier this summer on the fifth and final phase of the Harry S. Truman Parkway, a major north-south thoroughfare on the city’s east side. Although the project was first planned in the 1960s, it was not until 1990 that any dirt was moved. After that, the road was built in increments over the next 20 years, delayed by everything from the expected funding problems to a pair of endangered eagles that were found to be nesting along the proposed route. When the last phase is completed in December 2013, motorists will be able to travel along a freeway that stretches from President Street, just east of downtown along the Savannah River, south for about nine miles to Whitfield Avenue and then west across wetlands to the busy Abercorn Street corridor, near Holland Drive. This last stretch, from Whitfield to Abercorn, a total of 2.08 mi. (3.34 km) is the final phase of the project. It could also potentially be the most problematic as much of it will need to be an elevated roadway over the Wilshire Canal, the Vernon River and an adjacent marsh. Still, the man in charge of building the last phase of the Truman Parkway doesn’t anticipate any problems. Jeff Kracun is a senior project manager in the Wilmington, N.C., office of Balfour Beatty see PARKWAY page 2
It will take 1,580 piles to get the roadway over this marsh.