The State Transportation Board and the DOT are moving ahead with the Northwest Corridor toll lane project, which will take some time to complete . . .
Former legislator Harry Dixon, a retired railroad engineer from Waycross, passed away at the age of 86 . . .
The State Transportation Board, to no one’s great surprise, appoints Keith Golden as the commissioner of the Department of Transportation . . .
Interim DOT Commissioner Keith Golden is recommended for a permanent appointment as the commissioner . . .
Sam Wellborn and Jim Cole are elected without opposition to new terms on the State Transportation Board . . .
The massive toll lane project for Cobb and Cherokee counties is cancelled by the State Transportation Board, leaving it with an uncertain future . . .
The Department of Transportation has three more widening projects underway on different segments of the Fall Line Freeway that extends from Columbus to Augusta . . .
Gov. Nathan Deal gives the red light, at least temporarily, to a billion-dollar toll road project planned for Cobb County’s I-75 corridor . . .
Vance Smith agrees to resign as commissioner of the embattled Department of Transportation, requiring the search to begin for the agency’s fourth commissioner in the past four years . . .
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who ironically is vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is duped by a fake photo of the corpse of Osama bin Laden . . .
