DOT Enhances Transportation Infrastructure; White Ground Road Bridge Reopens, Constru

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DOT Enhances Transportation Infrastructure; White Ground Road Bridge Reopens, Construction Begins on Shady Grove Bike Path and Traffic Calming Completed on Jones Bridge Road

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation is enhancing the County’s transportation infrastructure.

White Ground Road Bridge

The Division of Transportation Engineering (DTE) has reopened the White Ground Road Bridge over Buck Lodge Branch, Dawsonville, following a project to reconstruct the failing bridge built around 1950. The project also included extensive stream restoration and rebuilding of 500 feet of approach roadway on either side of the bridge.

The new bridge is 48-feet long and 18-feet wide and consists of a single span concrete slab. White Ground Road is designated as an exceptional rustic road, so the one-lane width of the bridge was not altered to maintain its character.

Shady Grove Bike Path

To provide access to the Shady Grove Metro station and Crabbs Branch Way, DTE will begin construction this month of a new 10-foot bike path along the east side of the Shad ...more

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