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BIRMINGHAM-ATLANTA. HIGH WAY ASKS STATE FUNDS Federal Aid and Counties Are To Fin ish Routes Plan The Cullman County road commis sion has been requested by the State Highway Department to pay for half of the cost of paving 3.30 miles of con crete paving on the Bee Line High way south of the city, which has re cently been graded. This link would cost approximately $11,000 per mile to pave or a total of about $36,000, costing the county, should it agree. $18,000. The state is to furnish no money, the other half to be matched by Federal aid funds. The present county road commission has expended around $8,000 for ma terials to pave the former east side route and a stretch,in the high school addition, at the request of the state, and under the state’s pledge to pave the 3.30 mile link. The members of the county commission do not favor the State Highway Department’s propos al, and it is understood that Lime stone and Morgan Counties have re fused. The following letter has been made public by the State Department: Montgomery, Ala., May 19—Under plans of the State Highway Commis sion the state will be enabled to pave approximately 200 miles of trunk high ways in Alabama this summer if coun ty boards of revenue in a dozen coun ties through which the highways pass agree to match $4,000,000 of federal appropriations to be made available after July 1, it was learned Monday. A movement has been started by the state to enlist the aid of Limestone, Cullman, and Morgan Counties on the Bee Line Highway north of Birming ham; Pike and Dale on the Dothan section of the same highway, and Montgomery, Lowndes, Butler, Con ecuh, Escambia, Baldwin, and Mobile Counties on the Montgomery-Mobile route. In the event completion of these highways is possible efforts then would be directed toward paving the Bankhead Highway between Birming ham and the Georgia state line, by way of Anniston on the Atlanta route, according to the plans. On the Athens to Montgomery sec tion of the Bee Line Highway 15.75 miles remain to be paved, cost of which is estimated at $283,509. On the Montgomery-Dothan section there re mains 57.55 miles, cost of which would be approximately $1,244,000. Between Mobile and Montgomery there remains 108.5 miles unpaved and cost of this work is estimated at $1,244,000, while there is a total of 83.40 miles unpaved on the Birming ham-Georgia line route, which is esti mated would cost $1,753,000, a total of $5,664,500 for the major projects. Cities and towns along the routes that would be benefited by completion of the work include Athens, Decatur, Flint, Cullman, Montgomery, Orion, Troy, Brundidge, Ozark, Davenport, Fort Deposit, Greenville, Chapman, Georgiana, Butler, Evergreen, Castle berry, Brewton, Sardis, Perdido, Bay Minette, Stapleton, Bay Ridge, Birm ingham, Leeds, Pell City, Riverside, Lincoln, Bastaboga, Anniston, Oxford, Cleburne, and Heflin. The plan calls for paving to be al lotted to the counties as follows: Lime stone, 8.65 miles; Morgan, 3.80; Cull man, 3.30; Montgomery, 31.8; Pike, 10.5; Dale, 15.25; Lowndes, 17; But ler, 83 Se 15. 5; Escambia, 44; Baldwin, 22; Jefferson, 15.6; St. Clair, 15; mattadega, 9.5; Calhoun, 22.3; and Cleburne, approximately 20 miles. The mileage and the total estimat ed cost of construction includes grad ing, drainage, and other work neces sary. Federal aid funds amounting to $2, 500,000 . “will be available to the state July 1 and annually ‘thereafter under an act of Congress. In addition the state has been appropriated $1,500,000 of federal funds for repair of highways damaged by floods last year.
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Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Thu, May 22, 1930
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