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GDOT’s $51M Widening of SR 92 Makes Progress
New Soil Connect App Has the Dirt...8
Construction Begins on UMMC Pediatrics Tower Scheduled to open its doors in 2020, a $180 million pediatrics tower is currently under construction at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson. In December of 2017, Gov. Phil Bryant and other officials broke ground on the seven-story, 340,000-sq.-ft. structure, which will include 88 private NICU rooms, additional pediatric intensive care rooms, 12 operating rooms, a children’s imaging center and an outpatient pediatric specialty clinic. “This expansion of Children’s of Mississippi will transform pediatric care in Mississippi, now and for years to come,” said Dr. Mary Taylor, Suzan B. Thames chair, professor and chair of Pediatrics at UMMC. “Children’s of Mississippi has patient outcomes that are among the best in the nation, but our health care providers are providing this world-class care in a 21-year-old hospital that we’ve outgrown. Our neonatal intensive care unit was built for 30 babies, but we care for three times that number. More room is needed for pediatric intensive care and for surgeries.” Being built adjacent to Batson Children’s Hospital, the pediatrics tower is an essential addition to the campus. A new elevator lobby Site demolition and clearing were and public access corridor will tie into the required, as the tower is being built By Cindy Riley
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Last November the C.W. Matthews Contracting CEG CORRESPONDENT Company Inc. began work on the multi-year, $51 million widening and reconstruction of State Route 92, a Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) project that begins at Malone Road in Douglas County and goes north to Nebo Road in Paulding County. “The total project length is 6.932 miles, which include three bridges and their approaches within the limits of the project,” said Mohamed M. Arafa, GDOT Communications Officer of D6- Northwest Georgia. “The project is on schedule and on budget.” The Paulding County portion of the project is 5.65 mi. and the Douglas County portion is 1.28 mi. “From Malone Road to Bill Carruth Parkway, the project will widen the existing state Route 92 from one lane in each direction to three lanes in each direction with a 20 to 24 foot raised median, including turn lanes at certain intersections,” said Arafa. “This section of road will be a 55 mph roadway. All existing traffic signals will be rebuilt/upgraded as part of the project.” The completion date for the project is July 31, 2022. This stretch of SR 92 carries approximately 23,200 vehicles per-day. “The widening will allow this section to accommodate an estimated average daily traffic volume of 33,000 vehicles per-day in year 2039,” said Arafa. “Upon completion, this project will improve the flow of traffic in the area, make it safer and help the public get where they need to go in Paulding and Douglas counties.” The project, which has been in the planning stages for many decades, is intended to meet a transportation need that has been growing. “With the increasing population growth in Douglas and Paulding Counties over the last few decades, SR 92/Dallas Highway has become a major transportation corridor for vehicles traveling between the two counties, especially to gain access to I-20,” said Arafa. “The SR 92/Dallas Highway corridor is the only direct corridor between the cities of Hiram and Douglasville and one of only three travel corridors between Paulding County and I-20. “This project will provide a continuous multi-lane corridor from Douglasville to Hiram,” he added. “Furthermore, the project, in conjunction with other projects in the GDOT Construction Work Program (CWP) and the Atlanta By Irwin Rapoport
Patients and doctors were among those who turned out for the groundbreaking, which featured confetti, along with shovels dug into a rainbow of colored sand.
Blanchard Machinery Hosts Cat Demos...22
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