{"id":2117,"date":"2011-04-26T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-pave-a-county-road.html"},"modified":"2011-04-26T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T19:11:36","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-pave-a-county-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-pave-a-county-road.html","title":{"rendered":"How much does it cost to pave a county road?"},"content":{"rendered":"How much does it cost to pave 3.5 miles of dirt road?\nApparently $1,413,097.92, or around a million dollars a mile,\nwhen the county insists on paving it like a state highway\nat the expense of safety:\n

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How Much<\/th>To Whom<\/th>From<\/th>For What<\/th><\/tr>\n
$7,200.00<\/td>Lovell Engineering Associates<\/td>Valdosta<\/td>Design of Culvert<\/td><\/tr>\n
$48,010.00<\/td>\nDoyle Hancock & Sons Construc.<\/td>Doerun\n<\/td>\n\nClearing and Grubbing\n<\/td><\/tr>\n
$1,357,887.92<\/td>\nThe Scruggs Company<\/td>Valdosta<\/td>\nPaving\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$1,413,097.92<\/td>\nAll contractors\n<\/td><\/td>Total<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

\nThis financial information comes from an open records request\nfiled by Carolyn Selby more than a year ago\nand finally fulfilled 17 March 2011.\nCopies of all the pages received are\nin the flickr set.<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nHow many other roads could have been paved for $1.4 million?\nIf this road had been paved like a local rural road,\ninstead of like a state highway (literally according to\nstate highway standards) it would not have cost nearly\nas much and probably another shorter road could have been paved, too.\nAnd if other roads were paved like local roads instead of state\nhighways, how many more of them could be paved?\nThey still wait while this one got paved to the tune of $1.4 million.\n

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